The Administration intends to modify its strategic arms negotiating position to narrow some differences with the Soviet Union, according to a wide range of American officials. The officials said in interviews that that there was a consensus in the Administration on a number of important changes in the American position, including proposed new overall limits on the number of missile warheads. The United States is prepared to increase the number of ballistic missile warheads and air-launched cruise missiles that it would allow by 25 percent, to 7,500, close to the Soviet proposal of 8,000. The new American proposal under consideration would also raise the limit on warheads on land-based missiles by 10 percent, to 3,300. The Russians, who have about 6,400 such warheads deployed, have most recently proposed limiting them to 4,800. In addition, the Administration’s tentative proposal calls for backing away from a ban on long-range mobile missiles. Pentagon officials, who pushed for the ban last year partly because the Soviet Union has an advantage in this area, are said to be resisting the change. But while the Administration is considering moving toward the Soviet position in these areas, the proposal is expected to retain an earlier call for a sharp reduction in the throw-weight, or payload, of Soviet missiles. The tentative proposal would also sharply limit some types of land-based missiles, forcing the Soviet Union to make tough choices about which weapons to keep or deploy.
A final White House decision on the new American position has not been made, but is expected before a meeting of Soviet and American arms control officials scheduled for this Friday and Saturday in Washington. Administration officials said the proposed changes grew out of a series of meetings involving the American negotiators in the Geneva talks and other arms control officials. An Administration official said the new American proposal reflected an interest in serious “give and take.” The official added that, while the details of the plan have not yet been formally approved by President Reagan, “it indicates the direction we are moving in.” The new proposal would still call for big reductions in strategic arms, but would allow higher limits on such arms than previously proposed by the Administration. A higher limit could partly bridge the gap between the Soviet and American positions. The latest Soviet offer sets a limit of 8,000 on the total number of missile warheads, air- and sea-launched cruise missiles and bombs. This offer allows limited research on the space-oriented missile defense program popularly known as “Star Wars.” Earlier, Moscow offered deeper cuts in strategic arms as part of an agreement that virtually banned research on “Star Wars,” which is formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Reagan Administration officials said today that recent concessions by the Soviet Union and the United States had significantly improved the chance for an East-West agreement in coming weeks on guidelines to avoid an accidental war in Europe. The Soviet Union has in the last two weeks accepted the principle of allowing on-site and aerial inspections of its troop formations from East Germany to the Ural Mountains. The United States has agreed to notify Moscow whenever it sends large numbers of troops for duty in Europe, the officials said. The two sides have also come closer to agreeing on how large a movement of troops should require one country to notify the others to avoid misunderstanding or misinterpretation.
The Moscow correspondent for U.S. News & World Report was detained by the authorities today after being handed a package containing two maps marked “top secret” by a Soviet acquaintance. The correspondent, Nicholas Daniloff, told his wife by telephone that he had been taken into custody by eight plainclothes agents after the meeting and was being held at a police or military detention center in Moscow. It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Daniloff had been formally arrested or charged with criminal offenses. As of late evening, the Government had made no information available about the case. President Reagan received word that the Soviets had imprisoned the American reporter. The United States Embassy protested the detention. An official there said it was “an obvious provocation.”
At least five Solidarity activists were detained by police in two Polish cities on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the founding of the now-outlawed free trade union, opposition sources reported. Jozef Pinior, a Solidarity leader in the southwestern city of Wroclaw, was taken by police from his apartment, according to his wife, Maria. Four other Solidarity activists were taken from their jobs by police in the southern city of Bielsko-Biala, a Warsaw opposition source said. There was speculation that the five would be held long enough to keep them from taking part in Solidarity observances planned for today.
A passenger aboard an LOT Polish Airlines plane held a knife to the throat of a stewardess during a hijacking attempt but was overcome by security guards, passengers reported after the Soviet-built TU-134 landed in Warsaw. The official Polish news agency PAP identified the assailant as a patient at a psychiatric clinic and said he is a minor. The incident occurred Thursday on a flight from the southwestern city of Wroclaw to Warsaw. Two anti-terrorist police specialists in combat fatigues routinely ride on Polish domestic flights.
Former U.S. astronaut James Irwin, 56, said he was detained for several hours by local police in Erzurum, Turkey, following allegations that he engaged in espionage while on an aerial search for Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat. Seven other members of the search party also were detained. Irwin, who walked on the moon in 1971, said that all eight of them were detained on charges of making an illegal flight and taking illegal pictures while flying over militarily sensitive areas. They were later released when an official reportedly confirmed that the flight and filming had been authorized.
A strong earthquake rumbled through Eastern Europe, sending people fleeing from their homes in Bucharest, Romania, and in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. There was no immediate report of casualties, but property damage was reported in both capitals. The tremor was also felt throughout Yugoslavia, but the extent of damage there was not immediately known. An official communique, read on Bucharest radio, said the quake measured 7.5 on the Richter scale. The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, said the temblor registered 6.9 on the scale and had its epicenter 110 miles northeast of Bucharest.
Two Marines were killed and six others are presumed dead in the crash of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter in the Atlantic off Norway while it was taking part in North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises, U. S. military officials said. Thirteen other Marines on the helicopter were rescued from the ocean after the crash, with two of them reported in serious condition. The helicopter was taking off from the assault vessel Saipan when it smashed into an empty chopper parked on the deck, officials said. The ship was about 60 miles west of Bodo, Norway, 75 miles above the Arctic Circle. Names of the victims were not immediately disclosed.
Two prominent French journalists, in a book-length study of the Greenpeace scandal, have concluded that President Francois Mitterrand gave advance approval to the sinking of an anti-nuclear protest ship in New Zealand. The two journalists, Jacques Derogy and Jean-Marie Pontaut, say Mr. Mitterrand was informed in advance of the operation by the head of the General Directorate for External Security, the French intelligence agency. The journalists’ conclusions, excerpted in the current issue of the weekly magazine L’Express, address some of the remaining basic questions about the affair. The episode led to the resignation of the Defense Minister and the dismissal of the head of the intelligence agency.
Urho K. Kekkonen, Finland’s President for more than 25 years, until an incapacitating illness forced his retirement in 1981, died early today at his home in Helsinki. He was 85 years old. Mr. Kekkonen, who was an adroit practitioner of a policy of neutrality and friendship with the neighboring Soviet Union, died at the seaside residence that he had occupied during his long presidency. The cause of death, it was announced in Helsinki, was a “circulatory disorder in the brain.” Upon his retirement on October 27, 1981, because of arteriosclerosis, the Finnish Government decided to allow him to continue living in the President’s residence for fear that moving him might aggravate his illness.
Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon, voiced support today for proposed talks between Muslims and Christians on ending the 11-year-old Lebanese civil war. Syria’s President, Hafez al-Assad, gave his support when he met in Damascus with Muslim members of the Lebanese Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Rashid Karami. “The President assured the Lebanese leaders of Syria’s full support to national reconciliation and any move that would deliver Lebanon from its impasse,” the state-controlled Damascus radio, monitored here, reported. Mr. Karami was accompanied by Nabih Berri, Walid Jumblat and Selim al-Hoss. The Lebanese Cabinet, made up of five Muslim and five Christian members, has fixed next Tuesday as a date for starting the dialogue, the first between the two sides in nine months.
Diplomats in Tripoli, Libya say they believe that, to judge from a sudden burst of public appearances, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi seems to have shaken off the deep depression that appeared to engulf him after the American bombing raids last April. The diplomats say that in the last 10 days Colonel Qaddafi has been returning to much of his old political form. But they add that because his statements have been few and cautious, questions continue to exist about his precise role in the Libyan Government. The colonel has been living on the move in an armored bus since the bombing, East-bloc and Western diplomats said. According to these diplomats, he never sleeps in the same place more than one night out of fear of American-backed assassins or another American air strike.
A leading opponent of Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq was arrested at the Karachi airport today when he returned after nine years in exile, the police said. They said the returning exile, Ghulam Mustafa Khar, a former Governor of Punjab Province, would be taken to Lahore, where many cases are pending against him. Mr. Khar, once a chief aide to Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, went into exile in Europe in 1977 after General Zia overthrew Mr. Bhutto, who was later hanged. A military court sentenced Mr. Khar in absentia to 14 years’ imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup against General Zia.
A guerrilla war between Tamil separatists and Government forces is beginning to take its toll on Sri Lanka’s strong democratic institutions, according to civil-rights groups and other Sri Lankans. Rights groups say that about 3,000 political prisoners are being held under emergency regulations and that at least 250 people have disappeared over the last few years while in the custody of law-enforcement officals. There are regular reports of brutality and torture in handling detainees. Human-rights activists also say that as the powers of the police, the recently created Home Guards and the armed forces have widened under a six-year-old Prevention of Terrorism Act, searches and harassment of monitoring groups are increasing. Some Sri Lankan rights advocates are afraid to speak publicly or be quoted by name.
Negotiations that participants describe as the most substantive ever to take place between the Sri Lankan Government and ethnic Tamils seeking regional autonomy ended tonight with both sides hoping they can now bring Tamil guerrillas into the peace process. “We have covered a lot of ground,” a Tamil negotiator said. “This will enable the next round of talks to be more sharply focused.” Both sides hope to resume negotiations next month. If guerrilla leaders are to be included — a political risk for both President J. R. Jayewardene and the Tamil moderates — discussions will have to take place outside Sri Lanka, probably in India, officials said. Leaders of the Tamil United Liberation Front, the moderate political organization that has been negotiating on behalf of the Tamils, returned to India tonight to brief Indian officials and other Tamil groups on the talks. It is widely acknowledged here that only India, where the guerrillas are based, can compel the militants to negotiate. The leader of the strongest of several dozen guerrilla groups, Velupillai Prabakaran of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, last week called Appapillai Amirthalingam, the front’s leader, a “traitor.”
Products made in South Korea are flooding the United States, and some experts say Korea is challenging Japan as the leading low-price supplier of everything from small cars to video recorders. Hyundai, for example, introduced its Excel subcompact car in February, and already it is the fourth best-selling import, having passed Mazda in July. The General Motors Corporation and the Ford Motor Company are planning to import Korean-made cars for sale in this country. Assembly Plant in Alabama In electronics, the Korean Lucky Gold Star Group opened an assembly plant in Alabama in August designed to produce up to a million microwave ovens a year. Gold Star and another South Korean company, Samsung, are each producing a million television sets annually at American plants. And an Arizona company is beginning to market Hyundai’s personal computers, at a basic price of just $699.
One of Cuba’s most prominent dissidents has taken refuge in the French Embassy in Havana, and Western diplomats say French President Francois Mitterrand is quietly trying to persuade Cuban leader Fidel Castro to allow him to leave the country. Ricardo Bofill, a 52-year-old former philosophy professor who since 1978 has spent almost a decade in Cuban jails, entered the embassy on Wednesday and declared that he was not going to leave. Authorities have refused him permission to emigrate and join his wife in Miami.
Starvation threatens a Sudanese city cut off by fighting, the International Red Cross said. Red Cross officials expressed new concern over the situation of more than 120,000 people in the city of Wau, in the disputed southern area of the Sudan near the Ethiopian border. They said the threat of starvation had considerably worsened after the disruption two weeks ago of an airlift that brought corn from Uganda.
Midterm election campaigns are to begin in earnest this week with few overarching themes and agreement by both parties on two central propositions: President Reagan is enormously popular, and his economic policies are unpopular in parts of the country suffering from hard times. Without an international crisis or sharp domestic controversy, politicians believe voters are largely apolitical, expecting little from politics or from political leaders.
President Reagan in a Labor Day tribute called America’s workers its greatest resource and said they “can have faith in the future” because of a healthy economy and enactment of a major tax overhaul that will fuel production of more jobs. The President, in his weekly radio address, delivered from his ranch near Santa Barbara, said the nation has enjoyed 45 months of economic expansion, witnessed the creation of 10.5 million jobs and trimmed inflation to its lowest rate in more than 20 years. Reagan made no mention of gloomy economic news, but he did say that farmers and some sectors of industry have not enjoyed prosperity.
President Reagan signed a bill to prevent the sale of oil at below-market prices from the Naval Petroleum Reserve, the nation’s fourth-largest domestic oil field. The measure, approved on a voice vote in the House and Senate, was enacted after oil from the Elk Hills, California, reserve was sold as cheaply as $4.90 a barrel this summer. At the same time the government was selling cheap oil, it was buying petroleum to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at $12.60 a barrel.
The President and First Lady attend a party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Klinger for members of the press accompanying the President.
Dissension among AIDS experts at the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has led to the suppression of research and sabotaged experiments, according to the Miami Herald. Dr. James Curran, head of the CDC’s AIDS program, denies the allegations, but Curran is at the center of the controversy, scientists said. Among their complaints is that Curran has blocked publication of research that showed commercially available spermicides kill the AIDS virus within 60 seconds. Lab workers at the CDC said ruined experiments, intense authorship claims on research papers and internal squabbling has led to the departure of key researchers.
California has approved legislation barring job and housing discrimination against AIDS victims. The measure was approved Friday by the State Assembly by a vote of 42 to 30 and was sent to Governor George Deukmejian. It was passed earlier by the State Senate. Assemblyman Art Agnos, a Democrat from San Francisco, said: “There is a compelling reason for this bill — the AIDS epidemic itself. It becomes more and more enormous every day.” In July, Governor Deukmejian vetoed a similar bill, saying there was “no compelling need for the legislation.” He also said that the measure incorrectly focused on AIDS and did not include other physical maladies that are officially recognized handicaps. The legislation approved Friday, however, includes a lengthy list of physical illnesses, including AIDS. Assemblyman Agnos said he hoped the change would lead Governor Deukmejian to sign the bill.
Laboratory tests confirmed nine new cases of legionnaire’s disease in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, officials said, and a state health team searched for the cause of the outbreak. The laboratory results brought to 12 the number of confirmed cases in the city since August 10. One death has been attributed to the disease, while 23 of the 29 cases in question occurred among people living in a 15-square-block area, officials said.
The way he tells it, things were fairly quiet for the sheriff of Starr County, Eugenio (Gene) Falcon Jr., in the predawn hours six days ago. It was about 6 AM and he says he was still puttering around his house in his underwear. But according to an arrest warrant issued by the Mexican authorities, the 260-pound sheriff was dressed in camouflage fatigues at that very moment, 40 miles away in Reynosa, across the Mexican border. What is more, a witness said, Sheriff Falcon was leading a four-man commando squad that pumped seven rounds from an Israeli-made Uzi machine gun into a convicted drug runner who was handcuffed to a bed in a second-floor room of the Civil Hospital. The murder of the prisoner, Margarito Piedra, has inflamed passions on both sides of the Mexican border, coming as it did amid heightened tensions between the United States and Mexico over drug trafficking.
A higher-than-average number of Kansas farmers exposed to the weed killer 2,4-D have developed lymphatic cancer, a National Cancer Institute report published in the weekly Journal of the American Medical Association said. No correlation was found between cancer and exposure on a smaller scale, such as in home gardening, it said. Previous animal studies found no cancer risk, but federal officials said that the new findings probably will lead to a special review of the widely used herbicide’s effects.
Mayor Kathy Whitmire has reversed herself and rehired 84 garbage collectors who led a wildcat strike earlier this month to protest layoffs. Mayor Whitmire rehired the workers Friday but suspended them for 30 days without pay. Four people accused of instigating the illegal strike were demoted from drivers to laborers, city officials said. “It’s certainly better than having no job at all,” said Richard Shaw, leader of local 1550 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Mr. Shaw called the suspensions “excessive” but urged workers to drop their appeals before the Civil Service Commission rather than run the risk of a more severe penalty. Mayor Whitmire rehired the workers after pleas from union officials and some members of City Council.
About 800 nurses striking three city-run hospitals in Boston over order to return to work, forcing the wages and duties defied a judge’s transfer of some patients to other facilities. A Superior Court judge found the nurses in contempt of court and fined their union $1,000 a shift after they defied a restraining order and staged a 48-hour strike. Mayor Raymond Flynn called for the nurses to return to work, saying the three facilities provide care to the city’s poor.
A federal jury in Chattanooga, Tennessee, found C.H. Butcher Jr. innocent of charges that he lied to investors and covered up insider loans that led to the 1983 bankruptcy of his finance company. The jury cleared Butcher, 49, younger brother of convicted bank-fraud felon Jake Butcher, of 25 counts of mail, wire and securities fraud. The bankruptcy cost 5,000 uninsured investors more than $25 million, prosecutors said. Butcher had faced up to 115 years in prison and $25,000 in fines if convicted.
Descendants of 21 slave families who had worked on a North Carolina rice and corn plantation from 1786 to Emancipation gathered there for an unusual homecoming. The plantation, Somerset Place in Creswell, was North Carolina’s second largest. It is now a state park.
An unreleased Federal study shows that 5 percent of America’s young adults are illiterate and 20 percent are semiliterate, even though 98 percent completed the eighth grade. The report, to be released September 24 by the Department of Education, found that 5 percent of those 21 to 25 years old read below the fourth-grade level and 20 percent read below the eighth-grade level. Those unable to read above the fourth-grade level are considered to be illiterate and those unable to read above the eighth-grade level are considered to be semiliterate.
Cold Canadian air covering the eastern half of the nation yesterday made the closing days of August feel like the opening days of November, shattering record lows in 43 cities from Texas to Rhode Island for the third day. Forecasters said a slow warming trend over the Labor Day weekend would end the autumnal cold spell that has brought temperatures in the 30’s and 40’s to most of the East. The lowest reading nationwide was 31 degrees at Bradford, Pennsylvania. The high-pressure system responsible for the cool weather moved slowly northeast, trailing more moderate temperatures, said Scott Tansey of the National Weather Service. “Warmer weather is working its way in behind it,” Mr. Tansey said. “Temperatures will be moderating over the Plains, the Mississippi Valley and the Mid-Atlantic Coast.”
43rd Venice Film Festival: “Le rayon vert,” directed by Eric Rohmer, wins Golden Lion.
Gelindo Bordin wins the Stuttgart marathon in 2:10:54.
Yuriy Sedykh of the Soviet Union sets a new world hammer throw record of 86.74 m (284 ft 6 in) in Stuttgart, Germany.
Major League Baseball:
The Chicago Cubs fell to the Atlanta Braves, 4–3. Dale Murphy’s infield single scored Zane Smith from third base in the seventh today, giving Atlanta the victory. The Braves trailed, 3–2, when Rafael Ramirez led off the bottom of the seventh with a double against Rick Sutcliffe (4–12). One out later, Chris Chambliss, pinch-hitting, struck out but reached first on a wild pitch that sent Ramirez to third. Ted Simmons grounded back to the mound, and Ramirez was tagged out in a rundown, leaving runners at first and second. After a walk to Omar Moreno loaded the bases, Frank DiPino replaced Sutcliffe and walked Ken Oberkfell, forcing home the tying run. Dave Gumpert was called in, and Murphy hit a dribbler down the third-base line that stayed fair, allowing Smith to score.
Roger Clemens becomes the major leagues’ first 20-game winner this season, striking out 11 Indians and allowing just four hits in a 7–3 victory to raise his record to 20–4. He left the game after the seventh with a blister on his pitching hand. The 24-year-old right-hander became the first 20-game winner for the Red Sox since Dennis Eckersley in 1978. Clemens also became the first Red Sox pitcher to go over the 200 mark in strikeouts since Luis Tiant in 1973. Calvin Schiraldi pitched the final two innings. Holding a 4–2 advantage in the fifth, the Red Sox added three runs off Phil Niekro (10–10). Jim Rice and Don Baylor drew one-out walks and then Tony Armas hit a 1–0 pitch for his 11th homer of the season.
The Detroit Tigers were edged by the California Angels, 5–4. Doug DeCinces hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning for the victory. It was the second time in two nights the Angels won on a ninth-inning homer. After Brian Downing led off with a walk, Reggie Jackson struck out and DeCinces hit the first pitch he saw from Bill Campbell (2–5) just over the right field fence. It was his 21st home run of the season and only the fourth Angels’ hit.
The Texas Rangers downed the Chicago White Sox, 6–2. Bobby Witt struck out nine batters in five and one-third innings, and Pete O’Brien, Darrell Porter and Ruben Sierra hit home runs for Texas. Witt (7–9), who gave up six hits and two runs and walked four en route to winning his third straight decision, came into the game with a 6.08 earned-run average and a major-league leading 116 walks.
The Pittsburgh Pirates clobbered the Houston Astros, 13–3. Rick Rhoden (15–7) pitched his ninth complete game, and Jim Morrison drove in three runs to lead the Pirates. The victory was Rhoden’s fourth in his last six decisions. Rhoden allowed eight hits and three runs over nine innings. Houston retained a seven-game lead over Cincinnati in the National League West.
The Kansas City Royals rolled over the Milwaukee Brewers, 10–1. Frank White drove in three runs and Mark Gubicza scattered seven hits for Kansas City. George Brett was sidelined with a sore shoulder suffered while diving for a ground ball Friday night. Jamie Quirk, who replaced him, had a two-run homer.
Garry Templeton drove in three runs, including the game-winner in the top of the ninth to help San Diego to win 5–4, and salvage a split of their twilight-night doubleheader. In the opener, Bryn Smith, the winning pitcher, doubled home three runs and pitched his first complete game of the year, giving the Expos a 10–1 rout. The Padres played the doubleheader after issuing a statement calling for the reinstatement of Goose Gossage, the suspended reliever. They had indicated earlier in the day they might boycott the games in protest. In the nightcap, Steve Garvey led off the ninth with a single and Jerry Royster sacrificed. Bruce Bochy walked and Marvell Wynne hit into a fielder’s choice, moving Garvey to third. Templeton singled up the middle, scoring Garvey. With San Diego trailing, 4–2, in the sixth, Garvey hit a two run homer, his 20th homer of the season, to tie the score at 4–4. The Padres, down to nine pitchers because of the suspension, used utility player Dane Iorg as a pitcher for the final two innings of the second game. He allowed one hit and one walk. He struck out Al Newman.
They are unchallenged, almost untouched, and they just keep rolling along: 5 straight victories now, 11 in their last 12 games, 87 in the 129 played this season, the Mets still pouring it on. They did it to the Los Angeles Dodgers again yesterday before 44,040 fans in Shea Stadium, beating them for the ninth straight time. And this time, they did it by 6–3 with Rick Aguilera outpitching Orel Hershiser and snapping a personal three-game losing streak, a rarity in the thriving world of the Mets. Tommy Lasorda, the manager of the Dodgers, as impressed as anybody, put it this way: “The Mets are 45 games over .500, so they must be beating somebody.”
The Baltimore Orioles edged the Oakland Athletics, 5–4. Odell Jones pitched four and one-third innings of scoreless relief, and Mike Young hit a home run in his first game back from the minors as the Baltimore Orioles snapped a seven-game losing streak. Young, recalled from Class AAA Rochester before the game, hit his sixth homer of the season with one out in the fourth. Eddie Murray’s RBI-single and Jim Traber’s sacrifice fly in the fifth made it 5–0. Ken Dixon, the Orioles’ starter, had not given up a hit and was ahead by 5–0 going into the fifth inning, but then he yielded four runs. Jones (2–1) struck out Dave Kingman with a runner on base to end the rally in the fifth and allowed only one hit the rest of the way. He struck out six and walked none.
The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the San Francisco Giants, 5–3. Mike Schmidt hit his 486th career home run and Don Carman pitched eight and two-thirds innings for Philadelphia. It was the fourth straight victory for the Phillies and their 10th in the last 13 games. Schmidt hit a two-run homer in the fourth. He leads the National League with 28 homers. Carman (7–5) took a three-hitter and 5–1 lead into the ninth. The Giants then rapped three hits, including a two-run double by Chili Davis, before Steve Bedrosian relieved for his 21st save. Mike LaCoss (9–10), who has not won since July 13, lost for the seventh straight time.
The pitching matchup was hardly deserving of comparison. Tommy John had 22 seasons in the big leagues, 264 victories and the incalculable expertise that goes with both. Bill Swift was in only his second season in the majors, had won just once this season and spent nearly six weeks in the minors after a dullish start. But the night belonged to Swift. The Seattle right-hander took a no-hitter into the eighth inning, matched John as the evening went along and beat the Yankees, 1–0, in the first game of a double-header tonight at the Kingdome. In the second game, the Yankees sent out another of their old warriors, the 41-year-old Joe Niekro, against Mike Brown. The Yankees salvaged a split, winning, 3–0.
Tim Conroy pitched seven hitless innings, retiring 21 batters in a row at one point, to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5–2 victory tonight over the Cincinnati Reds, who had won six in a row. The 26-year-old left-hander did not give up a hit until Bo Diaz led off the eighth with a double into the left-field corner. He gave up three hits before Todd Worrell came in to get the final out for his National League-leading 29th save. Conroy (4–8) walked two and struck out six in ending a personal five-game losing streak. Conroy, who came to the Cardinals with Mike Heath last Dec. 10 from Oakland in trade for Joaquin Andujar, had not won in eight starts since beating Los Angeles, 1–0, with a six-inning outing July 8.
Manny Lee went 3 for 4 and drove in three runs as the Blue Jays won their seventh straight, crushing the Twins, 8–1. Joe Johnson (4–1) scattered five singles over five and one-third innings, struck out three and did not walk a batter. Toronto reached Frank Viola (13–10) for a 3–0 lead in the second. With one out, Buck Martinez and Ron Shepherd singled and advanced on Willie Upshaw’s groundout. Lee skipped an artificial-turf triple over the head of the charging center fielder, Kirby Puckett, and Tony Fernandez followed with a single.
Chicago Cubs 3, Atlanta Braves 4
Cleveland Indians 3, Boston Red Sox 7
Detroit Tigers 4, California Angels 5
Texas Rangers 6, Chicago White Sox 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 13, Houston Astros 3
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Kansas City Royals 10
San Diego Padres 1, Montreal Expos 10
San Diego Padres 5, Montreal Expos 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, New York Mets 6
Baltimore Orioles 5, Oakland Athletics 4
San Francisco Giants 3, Philadelphia Phillies 5
New York Yankees 0, Seattle Mariners 1
New York Yankees 3, Seattle Mariners 0
Cincinnati Reds 2, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Minnesota Twins 1, Toronto Blue Jays 8
Born:
Ryan Ross, American guitarist and lyricist (Panic at the Disco), in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Justin Peters, Canadian NHL goaltender (Carolina Hurricanes, Washington Capitals, Arizona Coyotes), in Blyth, Ontario, Canada.
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