The Soviet Union built up its forces on Iran’s border in 1980, leading President Jimmy Carter to consider using nuclear weapons to stop a possible invasion of Iran, two of his advisers said today. The Soviet buildup was said to have occurred after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had overthrown the Shah in Iran in 1979 and after the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in December of that year. One of President Carter’s advisers, Jody Powell, who was Mr. Carter’s press secretary, said he recalled a session of the National Security Council and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss the Soviet build-up. “We discussed the options of what we could do and would do if the Soviets invaded,” Mr. Powell said. Among the options, he said, was the use of nuclear weapons. The discussion came after there had been intelligence reports of a strengthening of Soviet ground units that had been in a low state of readiness, reinforcement of air units and the movement of special forces. Details are being published in an issue of the Armed Forces Journal on Thursday. Whether the Soviet build-up was a prelude to an invasion or a military exercise was not clear, Mr. Powell said. “But it certainly got our attention,” he said.
Two Western nuclear experts said today that 24,000 people would probably die of cancer in the Soviet Union over the next 70 years from radiation released in the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. The experts said the figures were preliminary and were derived by applying internationally accepted radiation death rates to raw data given in a 382-page Soviet report on the April 26 accident. Soviet officials said they accepted the international standards. The projected rates were given in a news conference at which scientists attending an international conference here did calculations, at reporters’ requests, using Soviet technical data on radiation exposures. The experts took pains to point out that the Chernobyl-related cancer fatalities would be only a third of one percent of the 9.5 million cancer deaths expected in the affected western part of the Soviet Union over the next 70 years. One of the experts, Dr. Dan Beninson of Argentina, is the head of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, which recommends radiation standards to governments. The other, Dr. Morris Rosen of the United States, is the director of nuclear safety in the International Atomic Energy Agency, sponsor of the conference. The two men said they were projecting the figure of excess cancer deaths for the western part of the Soviet Union, with a population of 75 million.
A group of Estonian reservists briefly resisted after they were called up to help decontaminate the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor that burned in April, according to a Soviet regional newspaper. A series of articles in Noorte Haal, the Estonian-language daily of the Komsomol Communist youth league, was apparently intended to dampen widespread alarm in the Baltic republic of Estonia about the fate of the reservists, according to Toomas Ilves, an analyst at Radio Free Europe in Munich. “There seems to be mass panic about this in Estonia,” said Mr. Ilves, who translated the articles, which appeared between August 12 and 16. “Almost every other paragraph contains assurances that ‘rumors’ spreading in Estonia are greatly exaggerated.”
The United States and the Soviet Union opened high-level talks today on crisis areas around the world where the two nations often have competing interests. The delegations discussing these regional issues are headed by Michael H. Armacost, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and Anatoly L. Adamishin, a Deputy Foreign Minister. State Department officials said the talks were expected to end Thursday.
Heavy rain from the tail of Hurricane Charley flooded rivers and coastal towns in Ireland and Britain today and at least 11 people were feared killed by the floodwaters. The storm, with gale-force winds, swept across southern Ireland on Monday and earlier today, causing at least six storm-related deaths. The storm then struck Britain, and five people were reported missing and feared drowned in England, Scotland and Wales.
Lebanon’s top Christian leaders called today for a nationwide cease-fire to allow for talks with their Muslim rivals on how to end 11 years of civil war. “We stress the need for proclaiming a cease-fire on all fronts and opening passages between various areas,” said a statement issued by about 40 political and militia figures who met at the headquarters of the Phalangist Party in Christian East Beirut.
A day after White House officials in Santa Barbara indicated that Libya was planning new acts of terrorism, Administration officials here expressed concern that speculation about such activity had got out of hand. They expressed particular worry that such speculation might seriously undercut new American diplomatic efforts to toughen economic and political sanctions against Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Government. The officials who spoke today said the United States had no hard evidence that Libya was planning new terrorist attacks, and they flatly denied reports of impending American military action against Libya. Vernon A. Walters, the United States delegate to the United Nations, is expected to travel to Europe next week to explore widening these sanctions, and Administration officials are worried that he may be asked to produce evidence about new Libyan terrorism, which the United States does not possess.
Iran said today that an American engineer under arrest in Iran on espionage charges had provided Iraq with information for an air strike on a key Iranian telecommunications center. The Iranian press agency, monitored here, quoted Information Minister Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri as saying that the American, Jon Pattis, confessed to having been in contact with the Central Intelligence Agency through a liaison named Kavi Austin.
President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan said today that he expected that Benazir Bhutto and other arrested opposition leaders would be released from prison soon, but that they would be arrested again if future protests were not peaceful. General Zia asserted that Miss Bhutto had acted in an “unpatriotic” fashion by obtaining assistance and encouragement from the Soviet Union and India in her drive to overthrow his Government and force immediate elections this fall. “I have no proof, I frankly say so,” General Zia said of his charge, but he added that Miss Bhutto had obtained “large sums of financial support” from outside the country, as well as “assurances and guarantees from, and I wouldn’t hesitate in naming the Soviet Union.”
Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos has been granted permission to stay in the United States for at least another year. William Craig, district director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Honolulu, extended the routine six-month visa for Marcos, 68, through 1987. The extension also applies to the 120 to 140 aides and family members who fled the Philippines with Marcos in February or joined him in Hawaii shortly afterward, Craig said.
The self-exiled leader of a Muslim separatist revolt in the southern Philippines will return to his country next week for talks with President Corazon Aquino, a presidential emissary said. Agapito Aquino, the president’s brother-in-law, said he talked with Nur Misuari, the head of the Moro National Liberation Front, in Jidda, Saudi Arabia last week and Misuari agreed to meet the Philippine leader. Agapito Aquino said Misuari might negotiate for political autonomy instead of secession, which the government has rejected outright. It was not immediately clear where or when the talks would take place.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail S. Kapitsa said that Moscow will sign protocols of the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Treaty after area countries have ratified the agreement. “I can say very definitely the Soviet Union will sign appropriate protocols attached to the treaty declaring it a nuclear-free zone,” Kapitsa, who is on a two-day unofficial visit to New Zealand, told reporters. Ten of the 13 countries in the region, including Australia and New Zealand, have signed the treaty. Tonga, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands have not yet signed.
Mexico’s Attorney General said today that 11 members of the Jalisco state police had been charged with abuse of authority and causing bodily harm in connection with the August 13 arrest and reported torture of a United States narcotics agent in Guadalajara. The report did not specify whether the agent, Victor Cortez Jr., of the Drug Enforcement Agency, had been tortured while in detention, as United States officials have said. But the report said: “There was both testimony and reports from experts that permit the supposition of the probable commission of bodily harm and abuse of authority.”
El Salvador’s Vice President Rodolfo Castillo Claramount announced that the Salvadoran government has no intention of allowing U.S. military trainers to use Salvadoran territory to train rebels trying to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. “In recent days there have been press reports saying the rebels could train here; that is totally false,” Castillo said at a news conference in San Salvador. “President (Jose Napolean) Duarte insists no one has been, I will be, allowed to train armed groups in the country,” Castillo added. The announcement follows a similar decision last week by Honduras. Three countries have rebuffed the Reagan Administration’s plan for American soldiers to train Nicaraguan rebels on their soil. Salvador joined Honduras and Panama in publicly rejecting the proposal.
Bolivia’s Cabinet voted to begin a reorganization of the mining industry in which most operations will be either closed or offered to worker cooperatives, and half the 20,000 miners may be fired. More than 7,000 miners have already been dismissed in an attempt to cut huge losses at the state company, which has been devastated by a sharp decline in world prices for tin, the main ore produced in Bolivia. At least 5,000 miners began a 150-mile protest march from the mining town of Oruro to La Paz last week, and they are expected to reach the capital Thursday or Friday.
A witness to the burning death of a Chilean resident of the United States during an anti-government protest last month in Santiago was indicted by a Chilean army prosecutor on charges of possessing gasoline bombs at the demonstration. He is Pedro Martinez, a student who admitted carrying two Molotov cocktails during the demonstration. Witnesses had testified that soldiers poured gasoline over two youths and set them on fire during a July 2 demonstration against the rule of President Augusto Pinochet. One of the victims, Rodrigo Rojas Denegri, 19, who lived in Washington, D.C., died of burns four days later. The other victim, Carmen Quintana, 18, was hospitalized with serious burns.
Witnesses to the burning of two teen-agers, reportedly by security forces, have been arrested, harassed and threatened with death in an effort to get them to retract or change their testimony, according to a lawyer. Luis Toro, a lawyer representing the surviving burn victim, said he has asked a civilian court to order protection for all 14 civilian witnesses.
Many victims of the toxic gas cloud in northwest Cameroon were found sprawled together in their front yards, unable to stagger any farther. They had stripped themselves of all clothing in a desperate attempt to escape the searing heat of the volcanic cloud that suffocated them. Cameroon officials and rescue workers said the death toll in the gas disaster Thursday was about 1,500.
Eleven blacks were shot dead by security forces and 62 other people injured a night of street fighting that engulfed a section of Soweto overnight — the worst bloodshed in the vast township since riots a decade ago. Residents said the fighting started when local officials sought to evict tenants who had been refusing to pay their rents as part of a mass boycott. The South African authorities withtheld comment initially on the bloodshed when it started last night. But in a statement early today, the Bureau for Information, the sole outlet for authorized news about the state of emergency that has been in force since June 12, said security forces opened fire on black protesters on two occasions.
An AIDS virus-insect link exists, according to French scientists. Officials of the Pasteur Institute said that specimens of many insects from central Africa contained the virus, but stressed that transmission of AIDS to humans by insects was extremely unlikely.
Governors differ with the President on welfare policy. The governors are preparing a plan to stress preventive programs such as improved health services and job training over tightened eligibility rules.
President Reagan spends the day in Los Angeles running errands and visiting with old friends.
President Reagan spends the afternoon working on homework.
The Justice Department filed a proposed court order requiring Phelps Dodge Corp. to pay a $1million civil penalty for polluting a creek at its Arizona copper mining complex and to build a water pollution control system there costing at least $8 million. The proposed consent decree, filed in U.S. District Court in Tucson, will become final after a 30-day public comment period and court approval. The decree resolves a civil complaint filed in May, 1985, charging the company with violating the Clean Water Act by dumping mine tailing and low-grade sulfide ore into Chase Creek, which flows into the San Francisco River.
A group of Democratic senators called for a renewed FBI investigation of allegations that Chief Justice-designate William H. Rehnquist mishandled a trust fund for his disabled brother-in-law. “We understand that the FBI conducted a limited investigation of this issue, but that a number of fundamental questions remain unanswered,” said the letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond (R-South Carolina). The brother-in-law, Harold Dickerson Cornell of San Diego, had told The Times that Rehnquist failed for more than 20 years to tell him about a trust fund established to help him financially while he was disabled with multiple sclerosis.
The nation’s poverty rate eased last year by four-tenths of a percentage point, to 14 percent, the same level as in 1981, the Census Bureau reported. The poverty rate was 20.5 percent for children under 18 years of age and 23 percent for those under 6.
Robert Chambers, the “Preppie Killer,” murders Jennifer Levin in New York City’s Central Park and later claims “rough sex” as the motive. A cyclist found a teen-ager murdered in New York’s Central Park, the police said. They said the victim, Jennifer Dawn Levin, 18, had apparently been sexually abused and strangled. The young woman, who was found behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lived with her father in the Soho area of Manhattan. The suspect was arrested early today. Chambers would change his story several times during the course of the ensuing investigation, ultimately claiming that Levin’s death was the accidental result of him pushing her off of him as she purportedly sexually assaulted him, an account that was characterized by media accounts as one of “rough sex.” Chambers later pleaded guilty to manslaughter after a jury failed to reach a verdict after nine days of deliberation.
Former Governor Henry L. Bellmon won the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Oklahoma’s primary, and Rep. James R. Jones captured the Democratic nomination to oppose first-term Senator Don Nickles. In the Democratic primary for governor, businessman David Walters held the lead but appeared headed for a September 16 runoff with Attorney General Mike Turpen. In Alaska, Governor Bill Sheffield faced a stiff Democratic primary challenge, and former Governor Walter J. Hickel was making a comeback bid in a crowded Republican field.
The first person to be charged in a drug-tampering case pleaded guilty to contaminating cold and diet capsules in hopes of lowering the price of the company’s stock. Edward Arlen Marks of Temple City, California, pleaded guilty to nine counts of a 27-count indictment in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida, for placing a rat poison ingredient in Contac, Teldrin, and Dietac capsules that forced the product to be removed from stores in Orlando and Houston in March. Marks had special options on the manufacturer’s stock, prosecutors said.
Carlton Gary was convicted of the stocking stranglings of three elderly women during a reign of terror that spanned eight months. The jury in Columbus, Georgia, deliberated an hour before convicting Gary of raping and murdering the three women in a period between September, 1977, and April, 1978. The attacks terrorized elderly women in Columbus. The state said it will seek the death penalty.
Two cases of Legionnaire’s disease, one of them fatal, have been confirmed in an outbreak of illness in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, that has killed five people and sickened 23 since August 10, health officials said. Officials seeking the source of the outbreak said they were concentrating on an area on the city’s northwest side.
Judge Alcee L. Hastings fabricated his successful defense against conspiracy charges, a special judicial panel has charged, and should be impeached by Congress, the Federal District Judge said. The judge in Miami, who was acquitted three years ago of charges that he had conspired to solicit a $150,000 bribe, said in an interview that an investigative committee of judges had determined that he was guilty of the crimes and had obstructed justice during his trial.
Strikes by Illinois teachers in Champaign and suburban Chicago have canceled classes for more than 10,000 students, while job actions in Michigan postponed classes for about 3,000 children. Classes at the Champaign schools were held Thursday and Friday but were canceled Monday by the strike, which has affected 570 teachers and about 8,200 students.
A Georgia father may have been doing what was best for his 16-day-old daughter when he tried to swap her for a sports car, the authorities said, dropping a charge against the father of contributing to the deprivation of a minor. John Carbo, the solicitor, said he agreed to dismiss the charge against the defendant, Robert Hudson, 24 years old, who pleaded guilty Monday to giving a false name.
Lightning apparently ignited a barge carrying a poisonous chemical today, injuring about two dozen people and prompting the temporary evacuation of about 1,500 people from the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, the authorities said. The barge was docked at American Cyanimid’s plant on the Mississippi River. The fire broke out at 2 PM and was extinguished shortly after 4 PM, according to the Coast Guard, which said the chemical involved was acrylonitrile.
In an effort to prevent 50,000 cases a year of a dangerous form of hepatitis, a majority of the nation’s blood banks will begin screening blood donations with two additional tests in the next few months, health officials have announced. The American Association of Blood Banks announced today that it had decided to use the tests, even though they were not precise and even though they were likely to reduce the nation’s blood supply by 5 percent. “There’s a lot more public interest out there in the safety of the blood supply and we’re responding to that,” said Dr. Joseph Bove, chairman of the association’s Committee on Transfusion of Transmitted Diseases.
The Transportation Department today rejected the proposed acquisition of Eastern Air Lines Inc. by the Texas Air Corporation, saying the plan would reduce competition on the shuttle routes serving New York, Boston and Washington. Eastern and Texas Air responded quickly by expressing confidence that the merger could be completed under revised terms. Until indications in the past few days of governmental misgivings, analysts had expected approval of the merger, which would create the nation’s largest airline company, with annual revenues of $6.7 billion, slightly larger than United Air Lines Inc. Eastern is the nation’s third-largest airline and Texas Air is No. 7. In July, the Justice Department said it expected to support the $676 million purchase. Today analysts remained optimistic that the merger would take place. Candace Browning, an airline analyst with Oppenheimer & Company, said: “Texas Air still very much does want to own Eastern. The most likely scenario is that the deal goes through.”
Ed Zschau was viewed as perfect when he came from behind to win the Senate Republican primary in California. The Representative from Silicon Valley was a young unknown moderate who ran a costly campaign. However, Senator Alan Cranston, the Democratic candidate, put Representative Zschau on the defensive right after the primary with biting commercials and charged he had changed key positions.
A line of thunderstorms that downed trees and power lines across the upper Midwest moved into Ohio with gale-force winds, shattering windows and ripping the roof off an elementary school. The storms stretched from northern Ohio across Iowa and Minnesota into western Kansas and eastern Colorado, the National Weather Service said. Winds of 70 mph shattered windows and ripped the roof off Homewood Elementary School in Lorain in northern Ohio. There were no injuries. In Illinois, a 16-year-old grounds worker was struck and killed by lightning at the Ellwood Golf Course in Genoa.
Rosa Mota of Portugal wins the women’s Stuttgart marathon in 2:28:38.
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The Kansas City Royals downed the Chicago White Sox 6–1. George Brett hit a pair of bases-empty homers and Steve Balboni added a two-run drive. Charlie Leibrandt pitched a six-hitter. The loss was the White Sox’s fifth straight and seventh in their last eight games. Brett, who went 3 for 4, hit a homer in the third and added another in the seventh to raise his total to 14. Balboni hit a two-run shot in the third off Richard Dotson (8–13), who gave up the first four runs. Balboni’s homer was his 28th. Leibrandt (11–10) struck out six and walked none in pitching his seventh complete game of the season.
The Toronto Blue Jays scored three runs in the top of the ninth inning, tying Cleveland 6–6, and the game was called after nine innings and a 66-minute rain delay. The game will be replayed in its entirety as part of a twi-night double-header Wednesday.
The Detroit Tigers defeated the Oakland Athletics, 8–7. Home runs by Darnell Coles and Mike Heath highlighted a six-run sixth inning as the Tigers rallied form a 7–2 deficit. The homers created a 7–7 tie, which Alan Trammell broke with a run-scoring double. The Detroit starter Jack Morris failed for the second time to get his 16th victory and was pounded for 10 hits and seven runs in 4 ⅓ innings. The start of the game was delayed 61 minutes by rain, and there was a 64 minute delay in the bottom of the second inning.
The Chicago Cubs beat the Houston Astros, 5–3. Terry Francona and Ron Cey hit home runs to spark the Chicago victory. Ed Lynch (4–3) worked the first six innings, allowing 10 hits and all three Houston runs. Frank DiPino hurled the seventh and eighth, striking out four. Lee Smith pitched the ninth for his 25th save. Houston’s Danny Darwin, making his first National League start, allowed four runs in six innings. With the score tied, 1–1, Chicago scored three runs in the sixth. Manny Trillo led off with a single and Gary Matthews grounded to the shortstop, Craig Reynolds, who threw to second too late to force Trillo. Bill Doran’s throw from second to first bounced off Trillo’s helmet and caromed all the way into the stands. Trillo scored what proved to be the game-winner and Matthews wound up at second on the play.
Glenn Wilson hit a three-run homer, capping a four-run eighth inning that led Philadelphia to a 6–4 victory over Los Angeles. Kevin Gross, 9–10, scattered 11 hits through seven innings for the victory. Steve Bedrosian pitched the final two innings, giving up Franklin Stubbs’ 21st home run and an RBI single by Enos Cabell in the ninth.
Paul Molitor’s single in the 10th inning drove in Jim Gantner from second base to give Milwaukee a 6–5 victory over the Twins. Kent Hrbek helped Minnesota take a 4–1 lead in the sixth with his 27th homer. Back-to-back homers by Cecil Cooper and Rob Deer highlighted Milwaukee’s comeback, and the Brewers tied the game in the eighth on Molitor’s sacrifice fly. Deer’s homer was his 30th, tying him for the American League lead.
When the Yankees reached the All-Star Game break, they were seven games behind Boston, but they were playing well and moving up. Six weeks later, the Yankees once again are seven games behind the Red Sox, but this time they are moving down. Mike Witt is the Yankees’ latest excuse for their faltering posture in the American League East race. Perhaps the league’s hottest pitcher, Witt shut out the Yankees last night on four hits as California won, 2–0. The outcome, combined with Boston’s victory over Texas, increased the Angels’ Western Division lead to four games over the Rangers.
The Cincinnati Reds edged the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–4. Dave Parker drove in his fourth run of the game in the ninth inning with a sacrifice fly for Cincinnati. Kal Daniels led off the ninth with a single off Ray Krawczyk (0–1). He stole second and took third on Tony Pea’s throwing error. Buddy Bell walked to knock out Krawczyk in favor of Pat Clements. Parker’s sacrifice fly to right made a winner of John Franco (5–4). The Pirates scored twice in the eighth off Franco to tie the score at 4–4. Singles by Barry Bonds, Johnny Ray and Mike Diaz loaded the bases, and R. J. Reynolds hit into a fielder’s choice, scoring Bonds. Pena singled home Ray with the tying run. Parker hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning off Mike Bielecki.
The question of the day is this: Do the Mets ever feel embarrassed when they come on to another team’s home field and take it over? Do they ever feel even a bit awkward when they come riding into town, like barons in their gold-stutted carriage? The question was put to Kevin Mitchell before tonight’s game and he responded with no hesitation: “Never, no, absolutely not.” And Ray Knight said: “We’re having too much fun to do anything differently.” Then this must be the attitude that is pushing the Mets to new levels. For without any drop of self-consciousness, they piled blow after blow upon the Padres this evening and came away winners of their 84th game, this time by 11–6.
Mickey Brantley keyed a four-run fifth inning with a two-run double and Jim Presley homered to help Mike Moore and Seattle beat Baltimore, 5–2. The Mariners used three doubles, a walk and an error in the fifth break a 1–1 tie against Ken Dixon, 10–10.
Vida Blue pitched one-hit baseball for nine innings, but it took the San Francisco Giants 12 innings to beat the Montreal Expos. “That’s the best workout by a pitcher I’ve seen all year. A ‘no decision’ is just a workout,” said Mike Krukow, one of Blue’s fellow pitchers, after Tuesday night’s 1–0 victory at Candlestick Park. Harry Spilman’s pinch-hit single with one out and the bases loaded in the 12th gave the Giants the victory, which kept them in a tie for second place in the National League West, seven games behind Houston. Scott Garrelts, 11–9, was the winning pitcher, allowing just one hit in three innings. He also had a key single in the winning rally off Bert Roberge, 0–3. But Blue stole the pitching show with the shutout work that lowered his earned run average to 2.96. He has allowed a total of eight earned runs in his last seven starts. “It’s amazing how good he’s pitched this year. You can’t pitch much better than he has. We just can’t score runs for him,” manager Roger Craig said.
Greg Mathews and Pat Perry combined on a three-hitter as St. Louis beat Atlanta, 7–1, in a rain-delayed game. Mathews, 10–4, shut out Atlanta on two hits for eight innings before leaving because of a 1-hour, 25-minute rain delay. He became the first Cardinal rookie to win 10 games in a season since John Fulgham went 10–6 in 1979. Mathews did not allow a base runner until Bob Horner led off the fifth inning with a single. Perry gave up a pinch-triple to Bruce Benedict in the ninth and Billy Sample’s sacrifice fly.
Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd pitched a four-hitter with 10 strikeouts, and Dwight Evans and Don Baylor hit home runs tonight as the Boston Red Sox broke a three-game losing streak with an 8–1 victory over the Texas Rangers. Boyd (13–9) walked one and struck out his season high as he ended the Rangers’ four-game winning streak. Boyd has won all three of his starts against the Rangers this season. Mike Loynd (1–2) allowed seven runs in four and one-third innings.
Kansas City Royals 6, Chicago White Sox 1
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Cleveland Indians 6
Oakland Athletics 7, Detroit Tigers 8
Chicago Cubs 5, Houston Astros 3
Philadelphia Phillies 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Minnesota Twins 5, Milwaukee Brewers 6
California Angels 2, New York Yankees 0
Cincinnati Reds 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
New York Mets 11, San Diego Padres 6
Baltimore Orioles 2, Seattle Mariners 5
Montreal Expos 0, San Francisco Giants 1
Atlanta Braves 1, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Boston Red Sox 8, Texas Rangers 1
Stock investors went on a buying binge yesterday, sending the market averages soaring close to record levels. The heavy volume of trading, which delayed openings for many actively traded issues, was linked to extensive program trading of stock index futures after Monday’s close. Program trading has been a major cause of the market’s volatility this year. The market’s upward momentum was sustained later in the day as banks trimmed their prime rates and by reports that Norway, an oil exporter that is not a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, was considering a reduction in its output as a means of bolstering prices. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 32.48 points, to 1,904.25, its second-highest close, 4.78 points below the record of 1,909.03 on July 2. Volume grew sharply, to 156.6 million shares, from 104.4 million on Monday, and advancing stocks outnumbered those that declined by 1,151 to 521.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1904.25 (+32.48)
Born:
Xavier Cedeño, Puerto Rican MLB pitcher (Houston Astros, WWashington Nationals, Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs), in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.
Brett Wallace, MLB first baseman, pinch hitter, and third baseman (Houston Astros, San Diego Padres), in Greenbrae, California.
Luis Marte, Dominican MLB ppitcher (Detroit Tigers), in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.
Ra’Shon Harris, NFL defensive tackle (Carolina Panthers), in Pensacola, Florida.
Erica White, WNBA guard (Houston Comets, Indiana Fever), in Jacksonville, Florida.
Cassie [Ventura], American singer (Me & U) and actress, in New London, Connecticut.
Died:
Jennifer Levin, 18, American murder victim, strangled by Robert Chambers in New York City’s Central Park.
Ted Knight [Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka], 62, American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show — “Ted Baxter”; Too Close for Comfort), dies of colorectal cancer.
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