Soviet foreign policy, for all the election-year talk about the United States losing ground to the Soviet Union, has experienced as many setbacks as failures in the past year. Advances in Africa and Southeast Asia were offset by Middle Eastern failures, the continuing chill with China and stalled accommodation with Washington. Soviet effectiveness abroad has also been sapped by weaknesses at home, notably in agriculture, and constrained by the suspicious conservatism of an aging leadership. Consequently, according to Western, third‐world and Communist diplomats, the Soviet Union seems likely to keep steering a cautious course in its foreign relations, though with potshots at targets of opportunity. “I would not foresee any drastic initiatives being taken from here,” a senior European diplomat suggested. “Soviet foreign policy is at its best not very resourceful.” This is so partly because Moscow still hews to the time-tested doctrine of “peaceful coexistence,” which allows it to press the West on a governmental level for arms reduction and increased trade while backing somewhat more covertly what it identifies as progressive or national‐liberation movements throughout the world. The latitude provided by such split‐level diplomacy has become clearer in the wake of events like the Angolan war. “The concept is ingenious, because it gives an opportunity to reconcile pragmatic state interests with the claim to be the leader of the revolutionary movement,” observed a Western diplomat.
One of the more persistent questions raised about Soviet foreign policy is why the Soviet Union has built up its military strength while pledging its commitment to detente with the West. Some diplomats tend to view it as reflecting the Kremlin’s preoccupation with the “correlation of forces,” Marxist jargon for the world balance of power. “They’re not doing it because of any particular motive but because of the prestige,” one Western diplomat said. “This is part of the credentials of a great power.” But, he adds, “once they have it, they could be tempted to use it militarily and this is a very dangerous and worrisome development.” According to Western military specialists, the Soviet armed forces have been steadily upgraded over the last decade with advanced new equipment and greater tactical mobility. The armed forces are now estimated at close to four million men, or nearly twice the size of United States forces. The Soviet Union has also developed a more ambitious deep‐water navy. This summer, it dispatched its first aircraft carrier, the 40,000‐ton Kiev, from the Black Sea out into the Atlantic.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands will step down from two international posts because of the official finding last month that he had sought commissions from Lockheed and had been extremely “imprudent and unwise,” according to well-informed Dutch sources. The sources said he would withdraw as leader of the Bilderberg Conference that he founded two decades ago and probably also as World Wildlife Fund president. The Bilderberg meetings provide an opportunity for top government and business officials from North America and Western Europe to talk with total frankness behind closed doors. They are named after the Dutch hotel where the first one was held.
President Nicolae Ceaușescu of Rumania arrived in Yugoslavia today for four days of talks with President Tito at a mountain retreat. Ostensibly, the meetings are for the purpose of coordinating planning for next summer’s meeting of the European Conference on Security and Cooperation in Belgrade and also to discuss a new Yugoslav‐Rumanian hydroelectric plant and an increase in trade. Such meetings are normal and frequent between such close allies as Yugoslavia and Rumania. But Yugoslav officials have shown concern about some recent developments in Rumania.
The Autonomous Region of the Azores was established by Portugal to grant some self-government to the islands in the north Atlantic, with João Bosco Mota Amaral being sworn in by Portugal’s President Antonio Ramalho Eanes as the first President of the Autonomous Regional Government in a ceremony at Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island.
Herve de Vathaire, chief accountant of France’s Dassault Aircraft Corp. who is alleged to have fled with $1.6 million of the company’s money, returned voluntarily to Paris and was arrested as he stepped off a plane from Athens. Aircraft manufacturer Marcel Dassault reported to police early in July that De Vathaire drew the money out of the company account and vanished. Dassault later withdrew charges, but the police continued investigating and issued an international arrest warrant. Also named in the warrant was French mercenary-adventurer Jean Kay who befriended De Vathaire last year. Police said De Vathaire has been living on the Greek island of Corfu since his disappearance. He had told his family that he was blackmailed into handing over the money to unidentified persons.
The British seamen’s union called a national strike starting midnight Saturday, defying the pay policy of the Labor government and endangering the country’s weakened economy. The 18-man executive board of the National Union of Seamen voted unanimously for a full-scale strike for a $10.80 weekly pay raise after a ballot of its membership had given the go-ahead by a narrow majority.
Britain’s second-largest company has admitted it made questionable payments of $2.4 million to various governments or government-owned businesses since 1972. The company, Imperial Chemical Industries, made the report to the Securities and Exchange Commission. I.C.I. does virtually no business in the United States, but does have bonds outstanding here.
The publication of a confidential report written by an Israeli official suggesting ways to curb the growing number and influence of Israeli Arabs in the Galilee region has provoked a sharp controversy in Israel. The report, written by Israel Koenig, the Ministry of Interior’s chief official in the Galilee region, said that by 1978 Israeli Arabs in the area would outnumber Jews. Such a situation, according to the report, raised the question whether Israeli rule in the area might be threatened. The report went on to recommend that a hard line be taken against the growth of the Arab population through steps that would include a rapid increase of Jewish settlements in areas with heavy Arab concentrations, a decrease in state subsidies to Israeli Arabs with large families and a program encouraging Arab youngsters to go abroad to study and then remain there.
The Soviet Union today toned down its previously outright support for the Palestinians and left-wing groups in Lebanon. For the first time, it criticized “ultraleftist elements” for having rejected all peace proposals. An authoritative commentary in Pravda, the Communist Party daily, renewed a Soviet call for a withdrawal of Syrian forces from the country and stressed that the only possible solution to the Lebanese crisis was a political one “based on a reasonable compromise.” Pravda said that attempts to achieves a settlement at the expense of Palestinian rights or by ignoring legitimate left‐wing demands could “only lead to a continuation of the bloodshed.”
Heavy artillery exchanges followed by sniping closed the only crossing point between the Muslim and Christian halves of Beirut again today. The shooting at the crossing started during the night, and sniping there was so intense later in the day that nobody was crossing, people in the area said. The security police building near the crossing point came under especially heavy mortar attack.
The major Western nations that have assisted the Egyptian economy are reportedly joining with Arab countries in a consultative group to discuss and coordinate these aid programs. The group, according to Western economic sources, will try to put pressure on Cairo to adopt economic changes that it has balked at accepting.
Pakistan’s Senate passed a constitutional amendment curbing the powers of the judiciary. After a two-day debate the bill, making 15 different changes in the 1973 constitution, was approved by a 29-0 vote. The only two opposition members in the Senate walked out before the final vote. They accused Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s ruling party of attacking the independence of the judiciary. The bill passed the National Assembly last weekend.
The Laotian Government has banned birth control. The decision to outlaw the use of contraceptives throughout Laos, perhaps the first nation to be subjected to such an action, is designed, according to government officials, to build up the nation’s population, decimated by more than a decade of war and more than a year of flight of a sizable part of the population into exile in Thailand and beyond.
Charging that American prisoners staging a hunger strike in Mexican jails enjoyed “far more privileges” than they do, Mexican inmates launched counterstrikes in protest. The hunger strike by Americans went into its second day, but officials said it was only about 50% effective. In some prisons, guards joined native inmates in their action protesting the Americans’ action, as well as the “brutal treatment” they claim is suffered by Mexican nationals jailed in the United States.
The Brazilian airline Rio Sul began operations with flights in Southern Brazil including in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, with a flight from Porto Alegre to Pelotas in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Argentina’s military Government responded to strikes in the automotive industry today with a decree punishing instigators of work stoppages with up to 10 years in prison. The strikes have halted work by 20.900 employees at the assembly plants here of Ford, General Motors. Chrysler. Mercedes‐Benz and Fiat in the most serious labor protest against wage restrictions since the military took power in March, ousting President Isabel Martinez de Perón. General Horacio Tomas Liendo, the Minister of Labor, visited the struck General Motors plant in a suburb of this capital today and met for two hours with worker representatives and company executives.
The government of Argentina outlawed the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious denomination, shut down publication of its periodicals, and closed the existing Kingdom Hall houses of worship in the South American nation, declaring that the Testigos de Jehová “supports principles which go against nationhood, basic institutions and fundamental concepts.” An American spokesman for the sect, which has an estimated 35,000 members in Argentina, said police closed the headquarters in Buenos Aires and all the temples in the country.
President Idi Amin of Uganda called for an assessment of traditional African medicines, with the possibility of integrating “traditional healers” into local health services. Amin made the opening speech at the 26th session of the African Regional Assembly of the World Health Organization in Kampala.
President Ford said today that the United States must now make “a major effort” to bring about a diplomatic solution that would allow blacks to take over power peacefully from white minority governments in South-West Africa and Rhodesia. He said the recent talks that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger had held with Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa and European leaders had made “good progress” on those southern Africa issues. Mr. Ford spoke at a news conference that he called after having received a briefing on the talks from Mr. Kissinger, whose activities regarding southern Africa have drawn domestic political criticism.
Rhodesian whites will receive financial guarantees under a United States-British plan agreed to by the South African Prime Minister, John Vorster, diplomatic sources said. However, the role of Ian Smith, the leader of Rhodesia’s white government, in any transfer to black rule is still a subject of disagreement.
The first meeting of the leaders of South Africa and Rhodesia since Prime Minister Vorster committed his country to support moves for black rule in Rhodesia will take place next week. Mr. Vorster gave his party followers no details of his weekend meeting in Zurich with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. at which Rhodesia and another white ruled territory, South‐West Africa, were the main topics. But he vowed to continue his efforts to bring about a peaceful transition to majority rule in both areas. “The discussions were fruitful and will proceed,” he said. “I will give all my strength to it because your future, and the future of your children, depends on it.” Mr. Vorster made the announcement at a rally during which he said he would never consent to sharing power with blacks in South Africa.
Violence in South Africa spread to the diamond town of Kimberley, where blacks stoned buses and cars. Policemen charged the crowds with staves and made several arrests. In downtown Cape Town, the police fired on demonstrators protesting the closing of high schools for students of mixed race. No serious injuries were reported after policemen used shotguns and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators. Meanwhile, two charred bodies were found in the ruins of a hostel for Zulu migrant workers set afire by other blacks in Soweto, one of the black townships near Johannesburg. A new round of fighting between hostile black tribal groups was feared. About 11,000 Zulu men, all without family, live in the barracks‐like hostels, where they are housed when they come from their tribal homelands to work in Johannesburg as contract laborers.
Interests close to the South African Government launched an English‐language newspaper here yesterday, posing a strong threat to the usually anti‐Government Rand Daily Mail. The new morning newspaper, The Citizen, which is backed by Louis Luyt, a prosperous businessman, is making, a major effort to differentiate itself from its rival. In an article by its editor, Martin Spring, it pledged not to follow the example of newspapers that “have too often been ammunition factories for our enemies.”
Jimmy Carter was “contradictory” in his statements about F.B.I. Director Clarence Kelley, President Ford said at a news conference. He said that Mr. Carter “showed a lack of compassion” in saying that Mr. Kelley should have been dismissed for accepting gifts from subordinates at a time when his wife was terminally ill. The President also said he was “confused” by Mr. Carter’s statement that he was uncertain whether he would retain Mr. Kelley at the F.B.I.
Morality in foreign affairs would be the goal of a Carter administration, the Democratic candidate told the B’nai B’rith convention. While he gave no details, Mr. Carter suggested the United States would do more good by using its foreign policy as a lever to advance human rights in Communist countries and in repressive regimes friendly to the United States.
[Ed: This stupidity will give us the Islamic Republic in Iran, and fifty years of terror, and a present-day war.]
Admitting error, former Gulf Oil lobbyist Claude Wild said he never gave Senator Robert Dole $2,000 in 1970 for Republican candidates as he had said he had done. He explained that he had come to believe that he had put the money in a safe deposit vault. Mr. Wild made a public apology to Mr. Dole, who accepted it.
The first debate between the presidential candidates will be held in a 167-year-old theater in Philadelphia, the League of Women Voters announced. Almost simultaneously, however, the candidates of a minor party filed suit in federal court to halt the debates on the ground they violated the communications and election laws.
President Ford and Jimmy Carter should devote one of their presidential campaign debates to energy policy, according to Dr. Edward Teller, the famed nuclear scientist. “It is very necessary to bring this issue before the American public in complete form,” said Teller, who has been called “the father of the hydrogen bomb.”
Severe electrical shortages and possibly blackouts could occur within four years unless immediate steps are taken to expand the use of coal and atomic energy, electric utility officials warned in Washington, D.C. The National Electric Reliability Council said the crisis could be averted if the utility systems of the United States are permitted to construct and operate all the nuclear power plants presently planned. The council, which represents utility interests in this country and Canada, said it is impossible to predict which regions might be affected first.
Dr. Michael I. Yarymovych, assistant administrator for field operations of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, warned an international conference in Manila that human survival would be impossible by the year 2000 unless abundant energy supplies are discovered within this decade. The conference on human survival also heard a warning by another American against unwise use of technology to tamper with the world’s climate since it might induce another glacial age and trigger a catastrophe worse than all-out nuclear war. The second warning came from Professor Stanford Penner, director of the energy center of the University of California.
Senate and House conferees reached a key compromise today tightening taxation of wealthy users of various tax preferences. While this agreement greatly increased chances of ultimate passage of the huge tax revision bill, the conferees bogged down later on lesser provisions and quit just before 10 P.M. without completing their work. They still hope to finish writing the bill this week. The compromise involved the “minimum tax,” which has been in the law since 1969 and now affects about 300,000 taxpayers. Under the changes agreed to by the conferees, about 270,000 additional relatively well‐off taxpayers would have to pay this tax, and most of those already paying it would have their tax increased, for an estimated additional revenue gain to the Treasury of slightly more than $1 billion next year.
Much of this additional tax would come from those who realize sizeable capital gains in stock market or other transactions.
A key provision of a bill to make sweeping changes in federal laws restricting the amount of pollutants that may be introduced into the air was retained by a vote of 199 to 156 in the House of Representatives. The vote defeated an amendment by Rep. Bill Chappell (D-Florida) that would have eliminated a section strictly limiting the amount of deterioration states can allow in relatively clean air. The House then postponed further consideration of the bill, sponsored by Rep. Paul G. Rogers (D-Florida) until later this week. The Senate already has passed a somewhat different version of the same measure.
Sixteen former staff members of the defunct House Intelligence Committee testified they did not know who supplied a copy of a secret report to CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr. Another staffer was asked to give testimony in closed session before the House Ethics Committee, which is in the fifth month of an inquiry into the leak.
“Are you now a member of the Communist Party, U.S.A., or any subdivision of the Communist Party, U.S.A.” will no longer be asked of applicants for federal jobs. The Civil Service Commission ordered the deletion of all political loyalty questions from standard job applications to comply with a recent court ruling.
Pervasive cheating and other dishonest practices at West Point were alleged in sworn affidavits from 65 cadets accused of cheating. The statements asserted that nearly 700 other cadets had engaged in such practices as cheating in academic courses, lying to officers and even “fixing” student honor boards to obtain not-guilty verdicts.
The Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter sales of 10 drugs designed to temporarily relieve the coughing and sneezing of the common cold and such allergies as hay fever. Their marketing is approved while the agency reviews an advisory panel’s 1,000-page report on the $735 million-a-year industry covering 35,000 to 50,000 nonprescription cold remedies. The 10 ingredients include two antihistamines, four drugs to ease breathing difficulties and four nasal decongestants.
John D. Ehrlichman, former No. 2 man in the White House under Richard M. Nixon, apparently will remain free until the Supreme Court acts on an appeal of his conviction in the Pentagon Papers case. But his lawyers expressed uncertainty about his position in the courts. U.S. Dist. Judge Gerhard A. Gesell Tuesday ordered Ehrlichman to surrender by September 17 and start serving his 20month sentence for his role in the White House Plumbers case. A short time later a federal appeals court stayed the effect of its own ruling last May confirming Ehrlichman’s conviction. One of Ehrlichman’s lawyers said they were researching the tangled situation.
On the opening day of Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel’s political corruption trial in Baltimore, U.S. District Judge John H. Pratt conducted preliminary interviews with half of the 250 prospective jurors summoned and excused 30 of them. Questioning will resume today. Mandel and four codefendants are charged with mail fraud, bribery and racketeering in connection with the state’s horse racing industry.
An outburst of stoning and bottle throwing near racially tense Charlestown High School marred the otherwise peaceful opening of Boston schools for the third year of court-ordered integration. A crowd of 200 white teenagers and adults clustered in the largely Irish Charlestown section and one youth was arrested. South Boston, another white area with frequent racial trouble, was relatively quiet. Officials said attendance was 69% of the 64,000 pupils expected.
A mob of 30 to 50 white youths armed with knives, pipes, baseball bats and sticks went on a rampage and attacked blacks in Greenwich Village, New York City police reported. At least 12 persons were injured, one critically with a skull fracture that necessitated surgery. “We have to assume it’s racial in nature at this point,” a police spokesman said. “Witnesses report white kids doing the swinging and all the victims are black.” Police said witnesses, describing the youths as ranging from about 15 to 20, entered Washington Square Park around 8:15 PM and started chasing and beating persons sitting on benches and walking in the evening cool.
The United Rubber Workers strike against the last of the Big Four rubber companies, B.F. Goodrich, ended with the unanimous ratification of a new contract by the six locals representing Goodrich workers. “They will be back to full production in a couple of days,” said URW President Peter Bommarito. They won wage increases of $1.40 an hour over three years.
General Electric Co. and the state of New York agreed in Albany to share the $6 million cost of an effort to clean up Hudson River pollution assertedly caused by GE’s dumping of a toxic industrial waste. The agreement settled a year-long legal action by New York against GE. State officials said GE had for 20 years discharged the pollutant polychlorinated biphenyls under federal and state permits. Not until last September did the state take action against the company.
A public warning about conditions at Attica prison made in July has cost the man who made it his job. Scott Christianson, chief of the State Commission of Correction team that reported on conditions at the troubled prison, said it had been made clear to him that the commission did not approve of his independent disclosure.
Brenda Cuttin, a 42-year-old British trapeze artist, fell 60 feet (18 m) to her death in front of a sold-out crowd of 5,800 people when the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus came to Selland Arena at Fresno, California. Cuttin fell head first and landed on a concrete floor a few feet in front of spectators on the front row.
The first full-sized luxury electric car, the Transformer 1, was introduced by Apollo Energy Systems and sold to violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
The TV interview show A fondo premiered in Spain’s Televisión Española public TV network and would run until 1981.
Major League Baseball:
Jim Palmer became the league’s first 20-game winner of the season by pitching the Baltimore Orioles to a 3–1 victory over the Cleveland Indians. In entering the charmed circle for the sixth time in the last seven years, Palmer gave up the Indians’ lone run on a triple by John Lowenstein and sacrifice fly by Larvell Blanks in the first inning. The Orioles tied the score in their half of the first and went ahead on a run-scoring single by Al Bumbry in the fifth. Reggie Jackson clinched the verdict with a homer in the sixth.
Carl Yastrzemski and Fred Lynn batted in two runs apiece to account for the Red Sox scoring in a 4–3 victory over the Tigers. Yastrzemski homered in the fourth inning. Lynn and Yastrzemski each drove in a run with singles in the fifth. Lynn then produced the deciding marker, hitting a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the seventh.
Pinch-hitting in the ninth inning, Lee Mazzilli smashed a homer for his first major league hit as the Mets exploded for six runs to defeat the Cubs, 11–5. Mazzilli’s clout came with two men on base in the young outfielder’s second time at bat with the Mets since coming up from Jackson (Texas). The Mets, in escorting Tom Seaver (12–10) to his victory, piled up 16 hits, including a homer and three singles by John Stearns, who drove in three runs.
Gary Nolan gained his 12th victory and Rawly Eastwick earned his 20th save by combining to pitch the Reds to a 3–0 victory over the Astros. The Reds were held to one hit by Bo McLaughlin until Tony Perez homered in the fifth inning. Pete Rose was safe on an error by Roger Metzger in the sixth and scored on a double by Dan Driessen before Johnny Bench wrapped up the Reds’ production with a homer in the ninth.
Two run-scoring singles by Mike Easler, each driving in Jerry Remy, enabled the Angels to defeat the Royals, 2–0, behind the combined six-hit pitching of Gary Ross and Dick Drago (6–7). Ross was forced to leave the game in the third inning when hit on the right ankle a by line-drive single off the bat of George Brett. In the sixth, Brett had to be carried off the field on a stretcher after being hit above the right eye by Dave Chalk’s knee while sliding into second base in an attempt to break up a double play. Remy singled in first inning, stole second and scored on Easler’s first hit. Another single by Remy, an infield out and single by Easler added the other run in the fifth.
Bill Buckner’s unwise attempt at a shoestring catch in the 11th inning set up the run that enabled the Giants to defeat the Dodgers, 1–0. Gary Thomasson rapped a sinking line drive to open the 11th and when Buckner failed to come up with the ball, Thomasson wound up at second with a double. Mike Sadek sacrificed. Darrell Evans then batted for winning pitcher Ed Halicki (12–14) and hit a sacrifice fly to score the game’s lone run.
Posting his fourth shutout of the season, Ed Figueroa (17–8) yielded only three singles and pitched the Yankees to an 8–0 victory over the Brewers. The Yankees’ attack included homers by Graig Nettles and Otto Velez.
After failing behind, 5–0, in the first inning, the White Sox came back with a pair of three-run rallies to defeat the Athletics, 6–5. The A’s sent 11 men to bat in the first. Joe Rudi knocked in two runs with a triple and scored himself on a double by Claudell Washington. The White Sox cut their deficit in half in the fifth when Bill Stein and Jim Spencer homered, Stein’s blow coming with a man on base. Jorge Orta singled in the eighth and Lamar Johnson walked. After Alan Bannister forced Johnson, Jack Brohamer hit a sacrifice fly and Bucky Dent doubled to produce the tying pair. Sam Ewing then batted for Wayne Nordhagen and singled to drive in Dent with the winning run.
The onrushing Pirates, who were 15 ½ games behind on August 24, pulled within 4 ½ lengths of the Phillies by defeating the Eastern Division leaders, 6–1, to complete a sweep of the three-game series. The victory was the Pirates’ 13th in their last 14 games, while the defeat was the Phillies’ 11th in their last 12 outings. Richie Hebner led the Pirates’ attack, driving in four runs with a single and double. The Pirates began their scoring with a pair in the second on a single by Bill Robinson, double by Manny Sanguillen and single by Hebner. Dave Parker doubled in the third and scored on a single by Robinson. After Sanguillen was hit by a pitch, Hebner added his two other RBIs with a double. The Phillies’ lone run off Jim Rooker (13–7) counted in the fourth on a double by Greg Luzinski and single by Garry Maddox.
Ending a six-game losing streak, the Braves scored twice in the 10th inning to defeat the Padres, 3–1. The Padres counted their run in the first on singles by Tito Fuentes and Willie Davis and a force-out by Mike Ivie. Jerry Royster singled to drive in the Braves’ tying tally in the seventh. Willie Montanez singled in the 10th and moved up on a sacrifice by Ken Henderson. After an intentional pass to Tom Paciorek, a single by Rod Gilbreath broke the tie. Errors by Hector Torres and Fred Kendall enabled the Braves to add an extra run.
The Cardinals, after losing the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 7–5, failed to hold a 7–1 lead in the second game and lost again to the Expos, 8–7. In the opener, Lou Brock hit an inside-the-park homer in the fifth inning to give the Cards a 5–4 lead, but the Expos won with a three-run rally in the ninth. Pete Mackanin and Gary Carter led off with singles. Bombo Rivera bunted and forced Mackanin at third. Jose Morales grounded out, but Barry Foote singled, driving in two runs to put the Expos ahead, 6–4. Following an intentional pass to Tim Foli and another walk to Mike Jorgensen, an insurance run scored on a wild pitch by Al Hrabosky. In the nightcap, the Cardinals built up their 7–1 lead at the expense of Gerry Hannahs, who was making his major league debut after coming up from Quebec City (Eastern). But the Cards’ defense fell apart in the sixth when the Expos scored five runs on four hits, two walks and three errors. Foli singled in the eighth and scored the tying run on a double by Jorgensen. Morales then doubled for his 22nd pinch-hit of the season to drive in Jorgensen with the deciding run. Joe Kerrigan, who relieved in both games, received credit for his first and second major league victories.
Lyman Bostock rapped four hits, scoring two runs and driving in one, to lead the Twins to a 3–1 victory over the Rangers in a game stopped by rain in the top half of the eighth inning. Tom Grieve homered for the Rangers in the second. The Twins knotted the count with singles by Bostock and Butch Wynegar around a passed ball in the fourth. The tie-breaking tallies followed in the fifth on a single by Steve Braun, triple by Bostock and single by Larry Hisle.
Cleveland Indians 1, Baltimore Orioles 3
Detroit Tigers 3, Boston Red Sox 4
New York Mets 11, Chicago Cubs 5
Cincinnati Reds 3, Houston Astros 0
California Angels 2, Kansas City Royals 0
San Francisco Giants 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
Milwaukee Brewers 0, New York Yankees 8
Chicago White Sox 6, Oakland Athletics 5
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Atlanta Braves 3, San Diego Padres 1
Montreal Expos 7, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Montreal Expos 8, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Minnesota Twins 3, Texas Rangers 1
Stock prices encountered profit-taking pressures and the Dow Industrial average closed down 3.65 at 992.94. Credit markets were quiet and firm as the corporate sector awaited new low rates for utilities.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 992.94 (-3.65, -0.37%)
Born:
Mike Rivera, Puerto Rican MLB catcher (Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, Florida Marlins), in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Zeron Flemister, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders), in Sioux City, Iowa.
Brendan Kelly, American punk rock bassist and singer (The Lawrence Arms), in Missouri.
Died:
Mabalo Lokela, 44, Zairean schoolteacher and the first person to die of the Ebola virus, which he had contracted 14 days earlier.
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