The arrest of a Soviet physicist who is a member of the United Nations Secretariat illustrates a significant security threat posed by the large Soviet contingent at the United Nations, Reagan Administration officials said. Gennadi Fyodorovich Zakharov, the physicist, was charged with espionage shortly after Federal agents said he received classified documents on a Queens subway platform from an unnamed employee of a military subcontractor.
As more than 500 scientists from 50 countries began converging on Vienna today to examine the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and how it can be used to improve nuclear safety, new information emerged on the cause of the accident. Scientists who obtained the Soviet Union’s 382-page report over the last few days said it indicated that the initial explosion, which blew through the reactor building roof and propelled highly radioactive particles into the air on April 26, was caused not by hydrogen as originally thought, but by steam. Such an explosion, in which fuel escapes quickly into the atmosphere along with fission products and gases, has not been widely studied, as hydrogen explosions have. Scientists here now believe that the steam explosion at the Chernobyl reactor was followed by a hydrogen explosion. Hydrogen explosions are effectively prevented in American reactors by equipment that was installed after the accident in 1979 at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. The equipment that was installed included igniters that burn off any hydrogen generated before the gas can explode.
In the closest glimpse yet of a secret Soviet program, a private company yesterday released five satellite photographs showing large buildings and a long runway in central Asia that are apparently key support facilities for a space shuttle that is under construction. Aerospace experts said the new photographs might help resolve a debate over when the Soviet Union planned to launch its winged spaceship, which is believed to resemble the American vehicle in general size and appearance. In general, one expert said, the photographs suggest a “close race” between the United States and the Soviet Union for the next launching of a space shuttle. Because of the Challenger explosion January 28, which killed all seven crew members, American shuttle flights have been delayed until 1988.
About 1,500 firemen and soldiers backed by planes and helicopters fought to contain France’s worst forest fire of the year as flames engulfed homes and miles of woodland, resulting in the death of at least three people. Officials say the fire destroyed over 200 houses as it swept through isolated hamlets, and more than 1,000 people have been evacuated from isolated villages and summer campsites. The fire broke out Saturday in the Tanneron Massif, inland from the Mediterranean Cote d’Azur, sweeping through about 12,500 acres of dry forest area overnight as high winds fanned the flames.
France’s controversial Cattenom nuclear power station, expected to be the world’s largest when all four reactors are in service, may not go into operation as planned next month because basements of two reactors had been partially flooded overnight, the electricity utility EDF said. It did not explain the flooding or estimate how long the delay might be. The plant has been opposed by the West German state government of nearby Saarland.
The United States and Egypt began air and naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean. A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Cairo said five American warships, including the aircraft carrier Forrestal, are taking part in the five-day exercise. He refused to say how many Egyptians are involved, and Egypt’s Ministry of Defense made no comment. Libya denounced the operation as part of a U.S. “terrorist plot” to dominate the world.
Israeli officials say that the discussion begun in Helsinki between Israel and the Soviet Union will continue in the coming year, but that its pace and scope will probably be determined largely by the Soviet Union. The Soviet-Israeli meeting last week, which was to have centered on consular matters, ended abruptly after 90 minutes, and a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman denounced Israel for having brought up the issues of Soviet Jewish emigration and the Middle East peace process. But although the Russians said the two sides had reached no agreement on any future meetings, many Israeli officials and political experts have asserted that this is not the last word. Israeli officials say they were generally pleased with the the meeting, largely because they entered the Soviet-initiated discussion with few expectations and felt that the Russians came in the same frame of mind.
President Chaim Herzog granted pardons today to seven more members of Israel’s domestic intelligence service in connection with the beating deaths of two Palestinian bus hijackers. The pardons bring to 11 the number of intelligence agents and senior officials of the intelligence service, Shin Beth, who have been pardoned by the President for any crimes connected with the slaying of the two Palestinians, Subhi Abu-Jumaa and Majdi Abu-Jumaa, on April 13, 1984. The two Palestinians, who were cousins, were captured alive by Israeli troops after they and two other men hijacked an Israeli civilian bus and threatened to kill all its passengers. The two other hijackers, along with one Israeli passenger, were killed during the Israeli assault on the bus. The head of the Shin Beth, Avraham Shalom, reportedly ordered the two surviving Palestinians bludgeoned to death, while they were in handcuffs, by other Shin Beth agents.
An attempt to close Palestinian guerrilla ranks has collapsed after hardline factions based in Syria rejected reconciliation with the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat. The development followed indications earlier this month, after Soviet-sponsored talks in Moscow, that a meeting bringing together all Palestinian factions might be in the offing. Six groups making up the so-called Palestine National Salvation Front announced Saturday after an all-night meeting in Damascus, that they would not agree to a special session of the Palestine National Council until Mr. Arafat ended a pact with King Hussein of Jordan and disavowed a statement renouncing violence as a means for achieving Palestinian rights.
The Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said today that Iran must reject any arbitration in the Persian Gulf war, fight until victory and “finish off” President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. “We should submit neither to imposed peace, nor to imposed arbitration,” the Ayatollah, Iran’s spiritual leader, told top government officials and military commanders at a mosque near his north Tehran home. “We should continue the war until victory — and it is near,” he said.
In Pakistan, a country where men still tend to consider most women weak and ineffective, the most popular and charismatic opposition leader is a 33-year-old woman whose fiery oratory has brought cheers from millions of men. Should the opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, oust President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and become Prime Minister, she would be the first woman to lead a country in the Islamic world. People here disagree whether Miss Bhutto is helped or hurt by being a woman, but few deny that the issue has become an intriguing factor in Pakistani politics. Everyone seems to have an opinion about it.
More than 1,000 New Delhi telephone operators returned to work with assurances of increased security, ending a two-day strike to protest the storming of a switchboard exchange by a pistol-packing politician. Delhi Telephone Co. operators told police that Prakash Chand Sethi, a member of the ruling Congress-I Party in Parliament and a former home minister, charged into the exchange, waved a pistol and demanded a call be placed to Bombay.
The Government of Sri Lanka and a Tamil party are to begin a round of talks on Monday that both sides view as critical in determining whether a political solution to the country’s ethnic violence is still possible. Describing the moment as “the turning point between the night and dawn,” the independent newspaper The Island said in an editorial this morning, “If the forces of darkness can be put to rout, it can be Sri Lanka’s finest hour.” What is being discussed — between a high-level Colombo delegation led by President J. R. Jayewardene and leaders of the Tamil United Liberation Front, once the country’s parliamentary opposition — is a plan to decentralize Sri Lanka, giving considerable power to the provinces. Such a system, the Government says, would grant considerable autonomy to Tamils, the predominantly Hindu people who make up the country’s largest minority population, in their traditional homelands for the first time in modern Sri Lankan history. Sinhalese, who are Buddhists, make up the majority of the country’s population.
Port calls by United States warships touched off scattered demonstrations across Japan today as protesters accused the Americans of bringing in nuclear weapons in violation of Japanese policy. American officials, in keeping with policy, refused to say whether or not nuclear weapons were aboard the ships. By far the biggest protest today occurred in the southern city of Sasebo, where a United States battleship, the New Jersey, sailed into port for a nine-day stay. As the 45,000-ton ship entered Sasebo Bay, it was approached by 47 fishing boats and other small vessels filled with anti-nuclear demonstrators. They were kept far away by an equal number of patrol boats from Japan’s Maritime Safety Agency.
President Corazon C. Aquino traveled to Indonesia today, leaving the Philippines for the first time since she came to power and brushing aside warnings of possible disturbances here during her absence. The Philippine armed forces were put on what was called a precautionary alert during her four-day trip, which was described by her aides as in some ways a dry run for her visit to the United States next month. As Mrs. Aquino prepared to depart, about 20,000 supporters of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos joined a funeral procession for one of their leaders that was one of the largest gatherings of Marcos loyalists since Mrs. Aquino took over the presidency on Feb. 25. In a departure speech at Manila International Airport, she made light of warnings that pro-Marcos forces might stage an incident similar to their takeover of the Manila Hotel on July 6.
United States protests over what it says was the torture of an American narcotics agent by policemen in Guadalajara this month have raised a political storm here over the activities of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Although the United States has maintained a narcotics liaison office here since the early 1960’s, many politicians and newspaper columnists are suddenly demanding to know why foreign law enforcement agents are allowed to operate freely in Mexico. “Mexico forcefully rejects any attempt to violate its sovereignty in the pursuit of narcotics traffickers,” Senator Antonio Riva Palacio of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party said Friday. General Says No Help Needed Further, the Defense Minister, General Juan Arevalo Gardoqui, who has asserted that 25,000 Mexican soldiers are taking part in the latest anti-drug push here, said Mexico did not need outside help in fighting the narcotics traffic.
Although American drug agents abroad face mounting threats from wealthy, well-armed drug traffickers, Government officials say they do not intend to pull back from foreign countries. The officials said the Drug Enforcement Administration agents who are assigned to United States embassies gather valuable intelligence on the drug trade from foreign police departments and informants. They also help in the training of foreign drug enforcement agents and with the eradication of drug crops. “I believe we’re appropriately deployed right now,” said David L. Westrate, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Assistant Administrator for Operations. “If we were to pull back from any place, I think it would hurt us. We would lose a lot of investigative coordination.”
The vice president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce was arrested on charges of spying for the CIA against the Sandinista government, Nicaraguan officials said. Guillermo Quant Tai, 55, was interrogated by state security following his arrest last Tuesday on charges of working for the U.S. intelligence agency, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said agents searched Quant Tai’s house and found secret codes hidden in a bathroom scale “especially prepared by the CIA,” which is involved in the U.S. support for Nicaraguan rebels.
Costa Rica will seek a court order to deport Bohdan Koziy, a former Ukrainian policeman wanted by the Soviet Union for allegedly killing Jews during World War II, Deputy Interior Minister Alvaro Ramos said. He said the United States also wants to question Koziy, but he did not specify when Koziy would be deported or to what country. Koziy, about 63, has been living in Costa Rica since October 28, 1984, after being stripped of U.S. citizenship for giving false testimony on his immigration papers.
Up to two million people face starvation in southern Sudan, where the downing of a civilian airliner by rebels eight days ago has dimmed hopes for a negotiated end to a three-year-old bush war, officials in Cairo said. The downing of the Sudan Airways plane that killed all 60 aboard dealt a blow to peace talks between the government of Prime Minister Sadek Mahdi and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Relief agencies were forced to suspend airlifting food to the south because of the fighting and poor communications.
President Kenneth D. Kaunda said today that he would ask President Reagan to meet with the leaders of South Africa’s black-governed neighbors to develop a new policy toward the region. Mr. Kaunda met earlier today with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the American civil rights activist, who is visiting the six countries, the so-called front-line nations. “Zambia and other front-line states are facing severe economic problems as a result of drought, debt and a dependence on transportation routes which are vulnerable to disruption and manipulation by South Africa and its surrogates,” Mr. Kaunda said in a statement.
A rent strike in segregated towns is spreading in South Africa. According to the independent Community Research Group at Witswatersrand University in Johannesburg, rent boycotts — some partial, some nearly total -are under way in 42 of the segregated townships, including Soweto, the biggest.
White House advisers have delayed a recommendation for President Reagan to eliminate or amend an executive order requiring goals for hiring women and members of minority groups because of recent Supreme Court decisions upholding some affirmative action plans, according to the President’s chief of staff. Donald T. Regan, the chief of staff, said senior Administration officials would not yet give President Reagan their recommendation on eliminating or amending the 1965 order because of recent Supreme Court decisions upholding such affirmative action plans as a way to compensate for past discrimination. This delays once again a decision on an issue that has split Administration conservatives and moderates. Last fall, Mr. Regan put the issue aside but he indicated in an interview this weekend that a decision would probably have been made by now had it not been for the Supreme Court.
President Reagan receives word that Ron Fortier of the National Security Council passed away the previous night of cancer. Reagan writes in his diary:
“Got word that Ron Fortier (N.S.C.) died last night of cancer. He was a fine young man — wife pregnant & a 2 year old son. I phoned her but there are no words to make it easier.”
President Reagan and his farm hands empty out the barn.
Transformation of the armed forces has followed the increase in blacks, women and young married people in military service since the United States ended the draft and returned to volunteer forces in 1973. The military has carried racial integration further than most American institutions have and is far ahead of other nations in making use of women, experts say.
President Reagan has endorsed “in principle” the call to repeal the nation’s speed limit of 55 miles an hour and favors allowing states to set their own speed laws, the White House said today. The repeal of the current law is a politically important issue in the West, a region Republican strategists regard as critical to their party’s hope of keeping its majority in the Senate in November. Seven Republican Senators in the West are seeking re-election this fall. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, confirmed that Mr. Reagan had indicated to two Republican Senators recently that he could support repeal of the current speed-limit law. Senators Steven Symms of Idaho and Chic Hecht of Nevada said that after they met with the President recently to discuss their campaign to increase the national limit, Mr. Reagan said in a letter that the “time has come to restore greater authority to the states in this area.”
Deere & Co. announced that it was shutting down production at 11 factories because of a strike by union workers at three other plants. But UAW officials instructed the 7,700 workers not on strike to report for work today, raising the possibility of a confrontation with the Moline, Illinois-based farm implement manufacturer. The strike by 4,300 United Auto Workers at a parts distribution center in Milan, Illinois, and at plants in Waterloo and Dubuque, Iowa, began Saturday after their contract expired. A UAW spokesman said the major issues are job security and cost-of-living benefits.
Oregon state Rep. Rick Bauman won the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Senator Bob Packwood in the November election. The four-term Portland lawmaker replaced the Democrats’ original nominee, U.S. Rep. James Weaver, who withdrew from the Senate race August 13, citing a House ethics investigation of his past campaign finances. At a party Central Committee meeting, Bauman, 36, defeated four other candidates, getting the nomination on the first round with 72% of the votes. However, many of the strongest possible challengers refused to jump into the race against Packwood, who has a $7-million reelection campaign fund and name recognition among voters.
Colorado’s Governor Richard D. Lamm criticized the congressional income tax revision as unfair to the states, but said its passage appears inevitable and alternative legislation could be worse. Lamm, a Democrat, addressed the executive committee of the National Governors’ Assn. at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, as part of the annual governors’ conference. He said that although many states stand to gain revenue, elimination of the sales tax deduction would hurt state and local governments in 45 states.
The Air Force unwittingly allowed computer tapes containing secret data about military satellites, aircraft and missiles to be offered for sale at public auctions of office furniture and supplies, Air Force auditors said. The Air Force Audit Agency found more than 1,200 magnetic tapes containing “sensitive, unclassified” data available for purchase at three out of seven bases it audited. Auditors did not try to determine whether any tapes actually had been sold or who might have bought them, but data on the tapes “could be useful to hostile agents,” they said.
The federal government wants to postpone the sentencing of John A. Walker Jr. because prosecutors need more time to determine if he is telling the complete truth about his Soviet espionage operation, according to law-enforcement officials and other sources. A Reagan Administration official knowledgeable about the case said some of Mr. Walker’s statements to prosecutors had been difficult or impossible to verify. “Certain stories are in question,” the official said. Mr. Walker’s chief defense lawyer acknowledged that because of the complexity of the case, prosecutors would have difficulty corroborating some accounts provided by Mr. Walker in extensive interviews.
The number of homeless people in the United States last year was approximately 350,000, a study by a Harvard University economist concludes. The number is about the same reported two years ago in a controversial Housing and Urban Development Department study. “We came in thinking we were going to find HUD with a serious undercount. We were surprised,” economist Richard Freeman said in an interview. Various advocacy groups have estimated that the number of homeless is as high as 3 million. Freeman said his study found that 39% of the homeless had spent some time in jail, and “the typical homeless person will be on the street or in shelters for 12 years,” not for just a relatively short period, as HUD concluded.
After 30 years and 55 days, Interstate 80 is now one uninterrupted 2,900-mile route, linking the country from the Embarcadero Freeway in San Francisco to I-95 in Teaneck, New Jersey. The last stretch of the highway, dedicated Friday, is a five-mile segment south of the Salt Lake International Airport and about 50 miles from the site where the nation’s first transcontinental railroad came together in 1869. The Interstate Highway System was created by the Federal Highways Act, signed by President Eisenhower in 1956.
An alleged cocaine boss sought since he was accidentally released from custody in New York City has been arrested in Colombia, officials said. Victor Eduardo Mera, 32, a former Colombian lawyer, had been a federal fugitive since February 14, 1984, when he was released along with Severo Escobar because of an administrative error while being held for trial on $1-million cash bail. Escobar, 55, was captured by Colombian officials on February 23, 1985, and sentenced to 30 years for conspiracy and cocaine distribution. Mera, who was arrested Saturday, is in custody in Bogota and extradition proceedings are pending, officials said.
A murderer and an armed robber escaped from a Louisiana prison, abducted a woman and forced her to drive to Houston, where they abandoned her and kidnapped another woman, the police said today. Danny Weeks, 33 years old, who was serving a life sentence for murder and armed robbery, and James Colvin, 32, who was serving 80 years for armed robbery, escaped Saturday night from the Louisiana Penitentiary at Angola, said Warden Frank Blackburn. The two inmates, armed with a .38-caliber gun, abandoned the first woman unharmed and abducted a Houston woman as she left a supermarket, said Det. O. W. Allen of the Houston Police Department. Neither woman was identified.
Frontier Airlines planes are idle. Frontier, a major carrier in the West, was shut down by its parent company, People Express Inc., which said it would file to place Frontier under the protection of the bankruptcy laws today if a labor dispute is not resolved by then. Thousands of travelers were affected, mostly at Denver’s Stapleton International Airport.
Babies born to crack users are crowding nurseries of New York City hospitals. The infants remain for weeks and occasionally months after birth, instead of days, because their parents are unable to care for them, doctors say. Harlem Hospital reported “an astonishing” increase in the number of babies with cocaine in their urine.
A National Guard personnel carrier taking firefighters back to an Idaho forest fire base camp after their shift swerved off a dirt road and rolled into a dry creek bed early today, killing four firefighters and injuring 17, officials said. The accident took place in Danskin Canyon, near the 18,000-acre Anderson fire, which started August 10, according to a Boise National Forest spokesman, Lee Singer. Allen Quintana, a spokesman for the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico, said the victims were from the Jemez No. 4 Indian firefighting team at the Jemez Pueblo northwest of Albuquerque. The crew had been in Idaho since August 12. The accident site is 12 miles east of the base camp for 1,764 firefighters and support personnel. There were 62 fire crews trying to contain the Anderson fire, which erupted in a lightning storm that also started other blazes across the Northwest.
Even after being away from tournament play for six months, John McEnroe says that on his better days he can still beat the world’s best players. Today was not one of his better days, though, and unfortunately for McEnroe his opponent in the final of the $150,000 Norstar Bank Hamlet Challenge Cup was the best player in the world, Ivan Lendl. The result was the same as the last time they played in a tournament -in the final of last year’s United States Open. Lendl won today by 6–2, 6–4, compared with 7–6, 6–3, 6–4 at Flushing Meadows. McEnroe said he was bothered by a gusty wind more than Lendl — which Lendl disputed. McEnroe appeared to be bothered even more by his erratic play and by Lendl’s punishing groundstrokes and far greater consistency.
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The California Angels edged the Baltimore Orioles, 4–3. Kirk McCaskill allowed five hits in eight and two-thirds innings for California, and two runs scored after Baltimore mistakes. McCaskill (14–7) struck out eight batters and walked five. Donnie Moore got an out for his 16th save. Bob Boone singled in the Angels’ third run after a botched Baltimore rundown play in the second, and Dick Schofield scored California’s final run on a wild pitch in the seventh. Ruppert Jones opened the second inning with a single and was trapped off second after overrunning the bag on a sacrifice bunt by Schofield. But Jones was struck in the back by a throw by the shortstop, Cal Ripken. Jones advanced to third and scored on Boone’s single, making it 3–1. It was only the second error in 50 games for Ripken. Storm Davis (9–11), the Baltimore starter, allowed seven hits before he left with one out in the second.
The Cincinnati Reds hammered the Chicago Cubs, 7–1. A tie-breaking double by Barry Larkin, a rookie, keyed a six-run eighth inning and Bill Gullickson allowed six hits in seven innings to lead Cincinnati. Gullickson (11–8) won his fourth game in his last five decisions as the Reds got their sixth victory in their last seven games.
Joe Carter and Julio Franco hit two-run home runs today to support the six-hit pitching of Phil Niekro and Frank Wills and lead the Cleveland Indians to a 5–2 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Niekro (10–9) pitched seven innings for his 310th major-league victory. He gave up both runs on five hits and four walks, striking out three batters. Wills got his first save. Carter hit his 21st home run in the first inning and Franco his seventh in the three-run fifth, both came off Al Nipper (8–9), the Red Sox starter. At 47, Niekro became the oldest pitcher to win 10 games in a season.
The Seattle Mariners bested the Detroit Tigers, 3–1. Alvin Davis hit a homer and Mark Langston scattered seven hits in seven innings as Seattle beat Detroit to avert a sweep of their three-game weekend series. Langston (11–10) left in the eighth inning after being hit with a batted ball for the second time in the game, by Larry Herndon, off his throwing shoulder. Tom Brookens lined a ball off Langston’s left leg in the third. Pete Ladd and Matt Young finished, with Young getting his 11th save. Langston had eight of Seattle’s 12 strikeouts. Darrell Evans struck out four times. Dan Petry (4–7) still looking for his first victory since undergoing surgery June 10 for bone chips in his right elbow, allowed seven hits in seven and one-third innings. He struck out four and walked two in his second outing since coming back.
The Montreal Expos bowed to the Los Angeles Dodgers 3–2. Dave Anderson hit a run-scoring double in the 10th to lead Los Angeles. Mike Scioscia opened the 10th with a walk and was sacrificed to second by Jose Gonzales. Anderson followed with his second double of the day to left-center field to score Scioscia. Brian Holton (1–0) won his first major-league game, pitching a third of an inning. Tim Burke (8–6) entered the game in the 10th in relief of Andy McGaffigan.
The Kansas City Royals fell to the Milwaukee Brewers, 3–2. Paul Molitor and Robin Yount hit consecutive one-out doubles in the 11th inning to lead Milwaukee. Dan Quisenberry (1–5) pitched three innings, giving up one run on three hits and two walks for the loss. The Brewers threatened in every inning except the second and 10th, and stranded 13 runners. Mark Clear (4–4) pitched the 11th for the victory. Molitor doubled down the right-field line with one out and Yount hit the first pitch over the head of Mike Kingery in right field for the game-winning hit.
The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Minnesota Twins, 7–5. A run-scoring single by Ernie Whitt in the top of the 10th ignited a three-run uprising that gave Toronto the victory. Cliff Johnson led off the 10th with an infield single and was replaced by Kelly Gruber, a pinch-runner. Buck Martinez then put down a sacrifice bunt, which was fielded by the pitcher, Keith Atheton, who threw the ball over the head of Kent Hrbek, the first baseman, as Gruber moved to third. After Willie Upshaw grounded out, Rick Leach, a pinch-hitter, was intentionally walked to load the bases. Ray Fontenot came in to pitch for Minnesota and Whitt greeted him with his run-scoring single. Tony Fernandez struck out, but Garth Iorg singled in Martinez and Leach for a 7–4 lead. Tom Henke (8–3) pitched three and one-third innings, allowing four hits while striking out four for the victory. Atherton (4–6) pitched one-third of an inning for the loss.
The afternoon seemed to drift away slowly, turning from a day of promise to just another untimely defeat in the Bronx. The Yankees lost another game and another chance to gain some ground yesterday. Worse, they also lost their indispensable third baseman. Mike Pagliarulo cracked his 28th home run and added a single and a triple, but his day ended abruptly in the eighth inning. He hit a routine pop fly, then hobbled noticeably off the field and into the dugout. When the day was done, and the Yanks had completed an inept performance by losing to the Oakland A’s, 11–4, Pagliarulo conceded that he had been playing for one week on a sore left hamstring.
The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Atlanta Braves, 4–3. Joe Orsulak went 4 for 4 and Bob Walk scattered six hits in seven innings to lead Pittsburgh to its fourth straight victory. The Pirates used a pair of errors by the Braves’ right fielder, Omar Moreno, to score two runs. The Pirates trailed, 2–1, when Johnny Ray singled to lead off the sixth against Doyle Alexander (3–5). Two outs later, Jim Morrison scored Ray with a single up the middle. Junior Ortiz then lined a single to right that skidded under Moreno’s glove and bounced to the wall, allowing Morrison to score the tie-breaking run and Ortiz to reach third. The Pirates scored in the fifth when Ortiz singled with one out and Belliard followed with a single to right that also scooted under Moreno’s glove for a two-base error, scoring Ortiz. The Pirates scored what proved to be the winning run in the seventh when Barry Bonds doubled home Orsulak.
The Philadelphia Phillies edged the San Diego Padres, 6–5. Milt Thompson hit a two-run single in the ninth and Steve Bedrosian recorded his 18th save for Philadelphia. Steve Jeltz opened the ninth with a single off Rich Gossage (5–6) and Ron Roenicke, the pinch-hitter, walked. Jeff Stone sacrificed both runners up, before Thompson, who had three runs batted in, hit the game winner to left field.
It is not every day that the Mets’ batters get just four hits. It is not often that the Mets lose, 10–1, as they did today, to the San Francisco Giants. Mike Krukow was the Giants’ pitcher who stopped them and Candy Maldonado was the Giants’ batting star, driving in five runs. His three-run home run in the first inning seemed to put the Mets off balance. The Mets’ six-game winning streak ended, and they slipped — all other baseball teams in North America should pardon the expression — to 40 games over .500.
Jim Pankovits tied a career best with four hits and Dickie Thon had two singles and drove in two runs today to help the Houston Astros snap a three-game losing streak with a 5–1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Houston’s Jim Deshaies (9–3) allowed four hits and walked four in five innings. Aurelio Lopez gave up three hits over the final four innings for his fifth save. Tim Conroy (3–8) committed two errors in the Astros’ three-run second inning. The Cardinals became the first team in 71 years to steal at least 200 bases a season in five consecutive seasons. St. Louis accomplished the feat when Tommy Herr stole second base in the third inning to give the club 200 steals so far this year.
Charlie Hough (11–8) and Mitch Williams combined on a four-hitter, and Don Slaught drove in the winning run with a fifth-inning single as Texas beat Chicago, 3–2, tonight. It was the Rangers’ ninth victory in as many games against the White Sox this season.
California Angels 4, Baltimore Orioles 3
Cincinnati Reds 7, Chicago Cubs 1
Boston Red Sox 2, Cleveland Indians 5
Seattle Mariners 3, Detroit Tigers 1
Montreal Expos 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Kansas City Royals 2, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Toronto Blue Jays 7, Minnesota Twins 5
Oakland Athletics 11, New York Yankees 4
Atlanta Braves 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Philadelphia Phillies 6, San Diego Padres 5
New York Mets 1, San Francisco Giants 10
Houston Astros 5, St. Louis Cardinals 1
Chicago White Sox 2, Texas Rangers 3
Born:
Arian Foster, NFL running back (Pro Bowl, 2010–2012, 2014; NFL rushing leader, 2010; Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins), in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Clint Gresham, NFL long snapper (NFL champions, Super Bowl 48-Seahawks; Seattle Seahawks), in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Jaimie Thomas, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts), in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Nick Adenhart, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels), in Silver Spring, Maryland (d. 2009).
Kali Reis, American boxer and actress known for “True Detective”, in Providence, Rhode Island.
