President Reagan today called the Soviet detention of of an American journalist an “outrage” and reiterated warnings that the episode was endangering United States-Soviet relations. Mr. Reagan urged the Soviet Union to act “responsibly and quickly” to free the journalist, Nicholas S. Daniloff, saying that failure to do so would have serious consequences. Unless Mr. Daniloff is freed, Mr. Reagan said “there is no way to prevent this incident from becoming a major obstacle in our relations.” The comments, at a fund-raising luncheon here, was Mr. Reagan’s first public statement on the case of Mr. Daniloff, who is the Moscow correspondent of the magazine U.S. News & World Report. The remarks raised the possibility that the Daniloff case might affect a range of issues between the two countries, including a possible meeting this year between Mr. Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The two administrations have been trying to identify possible common ground that would justify a summit meeting. Meanwhile, Administration officials in Washington said no decisions had been made on possible moves against the Soviet Union if Mr. Daniloff’s detention continued. A senior official said that a meeting planned for September 19 and 20 between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, would be dominated by the Daniloff case if it was not resolved by then.
The Government newspaper Izvestia indicated today that the Soviet authorities intended to link an imprisoned American journalist, Nicholas S. Daniloff, to an American diplomat who was expelled from the Soviet Union in June 1985 for what Moscow said was espionage. A spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, spoke of a suggestion that both Mr. Daniloff and a Soviet spy suspect held in New York be released in the custody of their respective Ambassadors pending trials. The prevailing view within the Reagan Administration is that the jailing of Mr. Daniloff is standard procedure by the K.G.B., the intelligence and internal security agency, to set up a trade to free an agent held by the United States. The purported evidence against Mr. Daniloff cited in Izvestia was a letter from the American diplomat, Paul M. Stombaugh, to a Soviet citizen referred to as “Roman.” The letter mentioned “a reporter” who passed a letter from “Roman” to a designated address.
The Soviet Union has recalled its two top negotiators at the European Disarmament Conference for urgent consultations, Soviet delegates said today. The 35-nation conference, which deals with ways of avoiding accidental war in Europe, is to end on September 19. Western diplomats expressed confidence that the Soviet delegates — the chief representative, Oleg V. Grinevsky, and his military adviser, General Viktor Tatarnikov — would return with permission to make final concessions to secure an agreement at the talks. The Western optimism was fueled by remarks by the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who was quoted as saying Moscow was willing to give neutral countries a role in monitoring compliance with any agreement reached in Stockholm.
Administration officials said today that during two days of arms talks here that ended Saturday, the Soviet Union did not respond to a proposal by President Reagan for continued adherence to the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty. Soviet officials were said to have reaffirmed, however, that Moscow intended to respond to Mr. Reagan’s proposal that each side adhere to the treaty for seven and a half years as part of an agreement to reduce long-range nuclear weapons. Mr. Reagan’s proposal, in a July letter to Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, was a response to a Soviet proposal that each side commit itself to the ABM treaty for 15 to 20 years. Administration officials said the two days of talks at the State Department concentrated on issues involving medium- and long-range nuclear weapons.
Poland’s Roman Catholic bishops called today for the release of all political prisoners and for constitutional guarantees that all political opposition figures may take part fully in national life. They said such guarantees should be extended in accordance with the individual’s beliefs and conscience and irrespective of party membership. The statement by the bishops, more aggressively worded than any recent church statements, was announced as the Government was considering an extension of the September 15 deadline for the release of political prisoners under terms of a limited amnesty.
An explosion apparently caused by a bomb ripped through the ground floor post office of the City Hall in Paris tonight, killing one person and wounding 18 people, the police said. No one took immediate responsibility. A witness told the French news agency that he had seen two men running from the scene just before the blast. The bombing was the second terrorist attack in Paris today. This afternoon, Kurdish militants seized the offices of Iraqi Airlines and took several hostages. The Kurds, who said they were protesting what they called a massacre of their compatriots by the Iraqi Army, first threatened to blow up the building, situated on the Champs-Elysees. But, after 90 minutes, during which the police laid siege to the building, the Kurds appeared at the door and were taken away by the police.
A powerful car bomb exploded early this morning outside the Cologne offices of West Germany’s counterintelligence agency, slightly wounding a passing motorist and severely damaging the building’s facade. Authorities said the attack appeared to be the work of sympathizers of the Red Army Faction terrorist group. A typewritten note found by a child in a nearby park took responsibility for the bombing in the name of the Fighting Unit Christos Tsoutsouvis. Mr. Tsoutsouvis was a Greek urban guerrilla who was killed in a shootout with police in Athens in May 1985. It is common for German terrorists to name their commandos after foreign comrades.
Leaders of Western Europe’s Jewish communities will meet in Paris on Thursday to discuss measures to increase security for synagogues and Jewish institutions in the aftermath of Saturday’s attack in Istanbul, Turkey. The meeting will be chaired by Edgar M. Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, which represents communities in 70 countries.
The Turkish Government has informed Israel that it would not welcome the presence of a high-ranking Israeli Government official at the funeral Wednesday of the 21 Jews slain in a terrorist attack on the largest synagogue in Istanbul, a senior Turkish official said today. Israel was reliably reported to have hoped to be allowed to send a delegation headed by a top Government leader, probably Religious Affairs Minister Yosef Burg. “We did not object,” the Turkish official said. “But we told them, ‘We are grieved by their deaths, but first of all they are Turkish citizens.’ “
Prime Minister Shimon Peres has accepted a written retraction from his Trade and Industry Minister, Ariel Sharon, who had charged that a terrorist attack against a synagogue in Turkey was a consequence of peace overtures by Mr. Peres. The action effectively ended a daylong Cabinet crisis. On Sunday, Mr. Peres canceled the weekly Cabinet meeting because of remarks made Saturday by Mr. Sharon asserting that Israel’s peace overtures had invited the Istanbul synagogue massacre. Late Sunday night, Mr. Peres accepted a second version of Mr. Sharon’s written statement, in which he completely retracted his accusations. “At your request I would like to clarify that there is no connection between the decisions of the Government and what happened in Istanbul,” Mr. Sharon wrote. “There is no connection between our sincere and general striving for peace and the murder of Jews.”
A poll published today by an Arabic newspaper there has found that a vast majority of West Bank Palestinians back Yasir Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, over King Hussein of Jordan, who has embarked on an Israeli-supported project to supplant the P.L.O.’s influence in the West Bank. The poll, published in the Jerusalem-based newspaper Al Fajr, also found that a majority of those polled consider violence against Israeli civilians justified and are as rejectionist in their attitudes about recognizing Israel as the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The poll was conducted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last July 28 to Aug. 8. Its results would seem to indicate that the violence against Israeli, Jewish and American targets that Palestinian groups have taken responsibility for in recent months are not simply the isolated actions of extremists, but grow out of some widely shared attitudes within the Palestinian community. The poll was supervised by Mohammad Shadid, a political scientist at Al Najah University, and was jointly financed by Al Fajr, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the American newspaper Newsday. The data were assembled through face-to-face interviews with 1,000 Palestinians living in a cross section of villages, towns and refugee centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Rival Shiite Muslim militiamen fought street battles today in two southern suburbs of Beirut, and the police said two gunmen were killed. Fighters from the mainstream movement Amal and the Party of God (Hezbollah), a fundamentalist faction supported by Iran, fought with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the predominantly Shiite suburbs, Hayy al Sollom and Shiyah. A spokesman for Amal, which is led by Justice Minister Nabih Berri, said friction developed on Sunday night, when an argument between a Party of God activist and an Amal member developed into a shootout. An uneasy calm prevailed in the suburbs this afternoon after Iranian Embassy officials negotiated a cease-fire.
Jordan’s King Hussein underwent a successful sinus operation in a London hospital, the official Jordanian news agency Petra reported. The news agency said Hussein is expected to leave the hospital in a few days. Hussein, 51, flew to London last Thursday, accompanied by U.S.-born Queen Noor, on what was termed a private visit.
The Pentagon notified Congress that it has approved arms sales worth a combined $156 million to the United Arab Emirates, Britain, Australia and Japan. Assuming there are no congressional objections, the Pentagon said the United Arab Emirates will be offered eight advanced radio systems, Britain two Phalanx ship-protection guns, Japan 38 Harpoon anti-ship cruise missiles and Australia 28 Harpoon missiles along with eight spare missile bodies and training missiles. The Phalanx guns will be built by General Dynamics in Pomona, California.
Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistan opposition leader, was released from prison tonight, three and a half weeks after her arrest in a Government crackdown on political dissidents. She immediately vowed to resume her drive to overthrow the Government of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Speaking at her family home in the Karachi suburbs, the same place where the police took her into custody last month, Miss Bhutto said also the anti-Government movement would have to “revise our strategy” and determine a more effective way to proceed in its challenge to General Zia. Miss Bhutto said her arrest — one of 2,000 in a week — and the subsequent clashes between protesters and the police in which more than 25 people were killed showed that both General Zia and Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo were “determined to cling to power at any cost.”
Pakistani police detectives visited Karachi’s Arab communities and Palestinian hostels today, investigating whether the hijackers of a Pan American jumbo jet had local accomplices. No arrests were reported, and the Pakistani authorities offered only sparse information about their inquiry into the hijacking on Friday. In Washington, Pan American World Airways officials increased the death toll by one, to 19. Two of those killed were naturalized Americans, Rajesh Kumar of Huntington Beach, California., and Surendra Patel, whose address was unknown. The others included 13 Indians, 2 Pakistanis and 2 Mexicans. A total of 43 people reportedly remained hospitalized today, two of them in critical condition.
Security forces in India captured a Sikh terrorist suspect wanted in the ambush slayings of 14 Hindu bus passengers in Punjab state, police officials said. Baljit Singh, seized along with two others in a shoot-out in Chandigarh, is accused of ambushing an intercity bus near the Pakistan border July 25 and selectively killing Hindu passengers. Sikh passengers were not harmed. The massacre set off communal rioting in New Delhi in which six people died and 100 were wounded. Since the bus ambush, Punjab police have killed or captured more than 200 Sikh extremists, who demand an independent Sikh state.
The military commander of the contras’ largest fighting force, Enrique Bermudez, said he thinks Nicaraguan rebels probably will be trained in the United States, using U.S. military instructors. Congress has approved a $100-million aid package that calls for U.S. military personnel to work with the contras, who are seeking to overthrow Nicaragua’s leftist government. Bermudez is military chief of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, based in Honduras. However, Honduras has refused to permit contras to be trained on its soil.
A Maryknoll missionary working in Peru has become the 25th nun to be threatened with expulsion from her order for signing a statement on abortion published during the 1984 U.S. election campaign. In a July 24 letter to Sister Rose Dominic Trapasso, she was told that the Vatican wanted her to “make a public retraction of her opposition to the teaching of the church” on abortion. The 1984 statement called for “candid and respectful discussion” of differences among theologians on abortion.
Bolivian anti-narcotics police, ferried in helicopters flown by American pilots, captured the biggest cocaine laboratory seized so far in the joint campaign against drugs, Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy said. The abandoned laboratory, in a mountainous area about 480 miles northeast of the capital of La Paz, contained more than 12,000 gallons of ether, a highly flammable compound used in processing cocaine, and several airstrips. No cocaine was found, and no arrests were made, he said. It was the ninth laboratory seized since 170 U.S. military personnel arrived in Bolivia on July 14 to assist in the raids.
Hours after an unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Augusto Pinochet was reported, his military Government moved today to expand a state of siege, closing six opposition magazines and arresting a range of opponents. Those reported seized included two prominent Socialist leaders, the head of the Chilean journalists’ federation and a suspended priest who the Government says is a guerrilla spokesman. Roman Catholic Church sources said those taken into custody also included three French priests, one of whom, the Rev. Pierre Dubois, has been a prominent figure in the poor community of La Victoria, scene of frequent searches by Government forces. Among the magazines closed was Hoy, probably the Chilean magazine best known internationally. It is generally identified politically with the right wing of the Christian Democratic Party, the largest political party in Chile.
New pressures are increasing the burden on American companies operating in South Africa, prompting many to leave or consider doing so. American corporations are having to grapple with the possibility that remaining in South Africa may cost them substantial business with local and state governments at home and could drive down their stock price, according to many investment experts, consultants and corporate executives. At least 18 American companies have pulled out of South Africa so far this year, and many of the 250 remaining seem to be re-examining their options. “In five years almost no American investment will be left in South Africa,” Pierre A. Rinfret, who runs an international business consulting firm in New York, predicted recently. Even the International Business Machines Corporation, one of the largest companies in South Africa, said earlier this year that it was “increasingly discouraged” with the situation there. In conversations, both on and off the record, executives at several companies appeared far less sanguine about their South African operations than they were just a year ago.
Harvests are outpacing population growth and providing abundant food. From 1960 to 1986, the amount of land on which grain was planted grew by less than 11 percent, but simultaneous improvements in crops and planting practices around the world caused grain harvests to more than double.
The surge of public concern about illegal drugs is energizing campaigns for state and Federal office around the country, according to political experts in both parties. Some politicians say they want the armed forces called out in the war on drugs. Others are calling for the death penalty for drug pushers, and in some Congressional races, candidates have challenged opponents to take a drug test. The issue, which recently moved to the top of the political agenda in Washington, is lending an emotional charge to an election year that for the most part has been short on national issues and themes. “The fact that drugs have become an issue is testimony to the lack of issues out there,” said Harrison Hickman, a Democratic consultant. “Everybody seems to be using drugs to jump-start some emotion in this campaign.”
Drug testing of more than half of all Federal civilian employees would be compulsory under legislation and an executive order being considered by President Reagan’s key domestic advisers.
Juvenile records and past drug abuse should be considered in sentencing adult convicts, in order to identify the career criminals, the National Research Council said in Washington, reporting on a government-commissioned study. The panel said it found that addicts and those with juvenile records are much more likely to be repeat offenders as adults. It said these factors should be given greater weight in deciding on pre-trial release, plea bargaining, sentencing and parole because sending chronic offenders to prison for longer terms could reduce the crime rate perhaps 10%.
President Reagan attends a Republican rally at the Denver Airport with 4,000 in attendance.
The Justice Department expects to keep its plea agreement involving confessed Navy spy John A. Walker Jr. even though Walker failed recent lie detector questioning about the scope of his past espionage activities, department spokesman John Russell said. Walker is to be sentenced October 3 to a life term, which could allow him parole in 10 years. U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello of San Francisco said the doubts about Walker’s story will not jeopardize the conviction of Jerry A. Whitworth, Walker’s accomplice in California.
U.S. Air Force F-15 jet fighters intercepted four Soviet bombers over the Alaskan coast just as the Soviets turned toward the Prudhoe Bay oil field, Senator Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska) reported. He said the incident occurred Thursday, but was classified. The Soviet aircraft were 90 miles off northern Alaska when they were intercepted by two F-15s from Galena Air Force Base in central Alaska. Senate Intelligence Committee analysts called the Soviet bomber activity significant, Murkowski said. Although the Air Force sporadically intercepts Soviet planes in the area, this apparently was the first time that four of the bombers flew such a mission together.
A public health advocacy group asked the Food and Drug Administration to order warning labels for a popular arthritis remedy, saying that the drug can be dangerous. The Public Citizen Health Research Group said clinical studies in Canada have shown that elderly patients taking Feldene attain a higher level of the drug in their blood than younger patients on the same dosage, and that this can cause gastrointestinal bleeding.
A private rocket company has been given permission to launch an orbiting mausoleum from NASA’s launch site at Wallops Island, Virginia, a company spokesman said. Houston-based Space Services Inc. plans next year to launch the first of three space tombs containing the cremated remains of about 10,000 people, the spokesman said. The human remains will be contained in metal capsules in a satellite that will be put into a 1,500-mile orbit. The Department of Transportation last month cleared the way for private companies to sell space launch services.
A California wine strike is spreading as the industry is experiencing a modest rebound. Industry economists said shipments of California wine increased nearly 12 percent in the first half of the year, and officials at nine struck wineries said that so far the walkout has done little to curtail production.
One inmate was killed when five prisoners broke out of jail in Tennessee Sunday, and in Rhode Island, a convicted killer was recaptured without incident four days after he escaped by oiling his body and squeezing through a 7-inch-wide window in his cell. A guard shot and killed Ronald G. Kaywood, 26 years old, in the break-out at the Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility at Wartburg, Tennessee, said a Correction Department spokesman, John Taylor. Two other inmates were recaptured and two prisoners remained at large yesterday, he said. In Coventry, Rhode Island, a convicted killer, James R. Silvia, was recaptured without incident late Sunday in a backyard, four days after he escaped through the narrow window at the state Adult Correctional Institution’s Supermax unit. He was serving a 170-year term for second-degree murder, an earlier escape attempt and other crimes.
Amid delays but no protests, thousands of pupils rode buses to the first day of classes yesterday in San Jose, California, as the city’s schools opened under a court-ordered desegregation plan. The San Jose plan is based on the creation of academically enriched or specialized magnet programs to attract children from predominantly white areas. The $16 million desegregation plan was designed to correct imbalance in a 37-school district that is 55 percent white, 31 percent Mexican-American, 10 percent Asian, 2.5 percent black, plus American Indians and other groups. It was approved by a Federal judge after the Supreme Court last year let stand a ruling calling for desegregation. Officials said about three-quarters of the students attended desegregated schools, far exceeding the 60 percent mandated for the first year of the four-year plan. The plan calls for 70 percent desegregation next year, 80 percent in 1988 and 90 percent in 1989.
Striking teachers reached agreement on new contracts in three school districts in Illinois, Michigan and Washington yesterday, while 117,000 students idled by strikes in 23 other districts nationwide and two colleges faced another week without school. Strikes continued to halt regular instruction for 17,600 students in Illinois, 5,800 in Massachusetts, 17,471 in Michigan, 4,100 in Ohio, 45,496 in Pennsylvania, 1,900 in Rhode Island and 1,500 in Washington.
A pretrial hearing began today for Henry Lee Lucas, accused of a 1983 ax slaying that was among the more than 300 killings he once admitted but later denied. Wes Statton, foreman of the grand jury that indicted Mr. Lucas in the death of 72-year-old Librada Apodaca, testified that the panel saw Mr. Lucas’s videotaped confession to the slaying and then questioned him in person. Mr. Lucas contends the confession was coaxed out of him.
More than a dozen frightened people called the police after hearing a political advertisement that simulated a news broadcast of a meltdown at the Seabrook nuclear power plant, the authorities said today. Police Chief Paul Cronin of Seabrook said the Sunday night advertisement for an anti-Seabrook Massachusetts Democrat, was “irresponsible.” The advertisement depicted an explosion and widespread panic as a huge radioactive cloud headed from the coastal New Hampshire plant south toward Boston. The nuclear reactor, which is not operating, was the focus of protests 10 years ago. It has become a campaign issue since the Chernobyl nuclear accident. JoAnn Shotwell, a candidate in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts Attorney General, had the $4,000 program broadcast on radio stations in five Massachusetts cities despite warnings by Civil Defense officials that it might be misunderstood. The program was interrupted every five minutes to explain that it was a simulation.
Temperatures sank to record lows from the central Plains into the Northeast, as a strong high pressure system pulled chilly air out of Canada. Temperatures in at least 30 cities tied or broke records for the date as they reached the low 40s and 30s in South Dakota, New York, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Kansas. Records on the books since 1883 fell in Chicago, where it was 43 degrees, at Madison, Wisconsin (37), and at Moline, Illinois, (38). Dubuque, Iowa, tied its record, set that year at 37. Pittsburgh’s low of 37 degrees was the coldest on September 8 since 1870.
Westinghouse sells the background music company Muzak to the Field Company of Chicago.
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” is first broadcast nationally.
Major League Baseball:
Bill Buckner doubled home the tiebreaking run in the 11th inning tonight to trigger a six-run explosion against Don Aase, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Orioles by 9–3 for their ninth straight victory. The Red Sox increased their lead in the American League East to seven games over idle Toronto. Boston’s lead is its largest since the All-Star Game break. After Baltimore scored twice in the ninth inning for a 3–3 tie, Wade Boggs led off the 11th with his fourth hit of the game, a single against Aase (5–7). Boggs took second on a passed ball, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Buckner’s double. Dwight Evans, who hit a two-run homer earlier, added a two-run double and Gedman capped the scoring with a three-run homer. Tom Seaver took a four-hitter and a 3–1 lead into the ninth, but left after leadoff singles by Larry Sheets and Jim Traber. Calvin Schiraldi (3–1) walked John Stefero and gave up a two-run single to Juan Beniquez that tied the score.
The Chicago Cubs downed the Philadelphia Phillies, 7–4. Leon Durham hit a three-run homer and Keith Moreland drove in two runs with a sacrifice fly and a single for Chicago. The Phillies got a two-run homer from Milt Thompson and a bases-empty homer from John Russell. The Cubs took a 3–0 lead in the first inning on Durham’s three-run homer. Ryne Sandberg beat out an infield single and Moreland moved him to third with a single before Durham hit his 17th homer of the season. Mike Schmidt dropped a pop foul by Moreland, allowing the Cubs’ outfielder to get a second chance at bat before Durham connected.
Nolan Ryan struck out 10 in six shutout innings and combined with Charlie Kerfeld on a three-hitter for Houston as the Astros beat the Cincinnati Reds, 3–1. Houston won its third straight game and increased its lead in the National League West to nine games over the second-place Reds. Ryan (10–8) gave up two hits and walked three. He raised his career leading strikeout total to 4,246.
Dennis Leonard snapped a personal victory drought of more than three months as he pitched a shutout three-hitter to lead Kansas City over Minnesota, 5–0. Leonard, who had lost seven straight games since June 4, outdueled Minnesota’s Bert Blyleven, 15–11.
Bob Welch pitched a four-hitter and Mike Scioscia’s home run ignited a three-run fifth inning as Los Angeles defeated Atlanta, 7–0. Welch, 7–11, struck out four and walked none for his third shutout and seventh complete game this Season. Welch’s closest call came after Omar Moreno led off the game with a single, stole second and took third on a groundout. But Welch fielded Dale Murphy’s hit and trapped Moreno in a rundown before striking out Bob Horner.
Rookie Bob Sebra pitched a five-hitter and Mitch Webster’s two-run homer highlighted a 16-hit offense, leading Montreal over the New York Mets, 9–1. Contrary to the signs outside Shea Stadium, the Mets last night did not play baseball the way it ought to be played. It has been a rarity this season that the best team in baseball allowed five runs in an inning, or seven consecutive hits in an inning, but that is precisely what the Mets did. The glamorous Mets were also guilty of two errors, so it was no surprise that they were battered by the Montreal Expos, who amassed 16 hits, 10 against Bob Ojeda, the starter and loser. Ojeda, now 16–5, got minimal offense from his teammates, but he also gave his most uninspired performance in some time. This was his 27th start of the season, and it was nothing like his previous four games, all victories. The Mets got five hits — four singles and Darryl Strawberry’s 20th home run of the season with two out in the ninth inning, which accounted for the Mets’ lone run of the night.
Bob Patterson won his first-major league start and Mike Diaz drove in two runs as Pittsburgh defeated St. Louis, 3–2. Patterson, 1–2, allowed five hits in seven-plus innings. Hipolito Pena finished with one-hit relief for his first major-league save. Danny Cox, 9–12, took the loss. He was a last-minute replacement for John Tudor, who was scratched because of stiffness in his left shoulder
Candy Maldonado had three doubles and drove in two runs, and rookie pitcher Terry Mulholland won his first big league game as San Francisco beat San Diego, 4–3. Mulholland, 1–6, got relief help from Jeff Robinson and Scott Garrelts, with Garrelts going the final two innings for his eighth save. The loser was Ed Whitson, 1–7. Maldonado drove in his 65th run of the season with his 79th hit, a double to left-center field in the first. Will Clark singled with one out, moved to second on a groundout by Mike Aldrete and scored on Maldonado’s hit.
Boston Red Sox 9, Baltimore Orioles 3
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Chicago Cubs 7
Cincinnati Reds 1, Houston Astros 3
Minnesota Twins 0, Kansas City Royals 5
Atlanta Braves 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Montreal Expos 9, New York Mets 1
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
San Diego Padres 3, San Francisco Giants 4
NFL Monday Night Football:
The game had a storybook ending, but not for the Giants. Herschel Walker, the heralded newcomer from the United States Football League, made his National Football league debut tonight for the Dallas Cowboys and scored the winning touchdown. It came on a 10-yard trap play off left guard with 76 seconds left, and it gave the Cowboys a 31–28 victory. Four minutes earlier, the Giants had taken a 28–24 lead on Phil Simms’s 44-yard touchdown pass to Bobby Johnson. The Cowboys dissipated leads of 14–0, 17–14 and 24–21 before pulling out the season opener. The crowd of 59,804 at Texas Stadium watched the Giants storm back on Simms’s three touchdown passes, the earlier ones covering 13 yards to Johnson and 3 to Stacy Robinson. The Giants’ other touchdown came on a 2-yard run by Joe Morris, who agreed to a new four-year contract only hours earlier. Tony Dorsett sprained his left ankle in the first half, and when it stiffened he sat out the second half. Walker, who signed for $5 million over five years, replaced him and, in all, carried 10 times for 64 yards.
New York Giants 28, Dallas Cowboys 31
Profit taking sent stock prices to their second consecutive loss yesterday as investors again moved away from issues that were considered good bets in slow economic times. The Dow Jones industrial average declined 11.11 yesterday, to 1,888.64. “It was pretty much a follow-through from last week’s action, compounded by weakness in the bond market,” said Charles Reilly, president of the Veris Capital division of Arnold & S. Bleichroeder Inc.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1888.64 (-11.11)
Born:
Logan Schafer, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins), in San Jose, California.
Gary Russell, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers, Oakland Raiders), in Columbus, Ohio.
Krystal Vaughn, WNBA forward (Washington Mystics), in Baltimore, Maryland.
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