The United States, in a new proposal, has suggested that an American journalist in Moscow and a Soviet employee of the United Nations in New York who are being held on espionage charges be turned over to their respective ambassadors and that the American then be allowed to return to home without trial, Administration officials said today. Amid discussions on resolving the latest crisis in Soviet-American relations, State Department and White House officials said they could not predict whether the Soviet Union would agree to the new proposal. President Reagan said tonight that he had received a reply from the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, to the American request for an early release of the journalist, Nicholas S. Daniloff, Moscow correspondent of the magazine U.S. News & World Report. He would not give details of the response, saying, “I don’t want to rock the boat.” Mr. Reagan, who spoke to reporters after a state dinner for the Brazilian President, Jose Sarney, declined to predict when the issue might be resolved.
Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt gave his last speech today to the West German Parliament, a chamber he has graced with his oratorical power and acerbic wit for 33 years. Someone figured out that Mr. Schmidt had spoken to Parliament more than 500 times; his first salvo as a young Social Democratic legislator from Hamburg was aimed at the Postal Minister on January 21, 1954. Mr. Schmidt’s discourse today was a national event, a spoken testament by a man who even out of power remains the country’s most popular politician. It was, formally, just another speech in a windy budget debate, a partisan event that elicits flashes of rhetoric meant for the television cameras and the evening news programs. But for Mr. Schmidt, who will not be running for Parliament in elections that will be held January 25, it was farewell.
With the backing of the Austrian Government, the American Jewish Committee is putting together educational and research programs in Austria intended to combat the anti-Semitism that emerged during Kurt Waldheim’s successful campaign for the Austrian presidency. The program was announced yesterday at a news conference in New York by the committee, a human-relations organization based in Manhattan that protects the civil and religious rights of Jews here and abroad. At the news conference, committee officials reported on a weeklong visit to Austria to evaluate the impact of the Waldheim campaign on Austria’s 9,000 Jews and to weigh the extent of anti-Semitic feelings in the country. During the trip, six committee officials met with Chancellor Franz Vranitzky and other Government officials, political party leaders and Jewish representatives.
An Arab group that claimed responsibility for a bomb attack at the Paris City Hall this week demanded the “immediate liberation” by the government of three terrorists jailed in France. The Committee of Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners said in a letter to a French news agency that it planted the bomb, which killed one person and wounded 18. The group, which claims responsibility for six other bombings in Paris, seeks the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction; Anis Naccache, head of a commando team that tried to kill Iran’s former prime minister in 1980, and Waroujan Garbidjian, who led a 1983 attack at Orly Airport.
In Istanbul’s Neve Shalom Synagogue, which still bears the stains and scars of a massacre last Saturday, a funeral service was held today for its 21 victims. Afterward, in a semicircle of graves, 19 were buried at Istanbul’s Jewish cemetery. The bodies of two of the men were sent to Israel for burial. They were said to have been refugees from Iran. The heavily guarded ceremony was attended by Interior Minister Yildirim Akbulut, and wreaths were sent by President Kenan Evren and Prime Minister Turgut Ozal. A wreath was sent in the name of the armed forces, which political analysts said represented indignation over the breach of national security constituted by the terrorist raid. Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupe represented the United States. Israel sent the Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Mordechai Eliyahu, after Turkey said a Cabinet minister would not be welcome.
Egyptian and Israeli negotiators agreed tonight on a formula for settling a border dispute and salvaged a meeting Thursday between President Hosni Mubarak and Prime Minister Shimon Peres. After more than 12 hours of meetings — most of them with the American special Middle East envoy, Richard W. Murphy, taking part — the two sides agreed on the terms under which their long-running border dispute over the 700-yard Sinai beach known as Taba would be sent to arbitration. That agreement cleared the way for the summit conference, which will be the first meeting between leaders of Egypt and Israel since 1981 and the first for Mr. Mubarak. The two-day meeting will be in Alexandria, Egypt. In Jerusalem, the Likud bloc demanded that a Cabinet meeting be held Thursday so strict guidelines could be laid down for the Peres-Mubarak meeting, Israeli Government sources said. In Washington, officials reacted positively to the agreement on arbitration. But officials added that Secretary of State George P. Shultz would not be able to travel to the Middle East soon because of a full schedule. “We have finished everything,” said General Avraham Tamir, the head of Mr. Peres’s office, as he emerged from the border talks shortly before 10 PM. “The summit will start tomorrow and will go over into Friday.”
Israeli Air Force planes struck today at suspected Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon, one hour after the Israeli Navy reported it had foiled an attempt by the guerrillas to infiltrate into northern Israel by sea. Fighter bombers swooped in from the Mediterranean over the port of Sidon 25 miles south of here and dropped rockets and bombs on a cluster of houses on the outskirts of the mainly Moslem port, the police and witnesses reported. The police said 3 people, a man and two women, were killed and 17 wounded. A big cloud of smoke billowed from the scene as fire fighters battled blazes caused by burning timber and paint.
The top official of the International Lions Club for Lebanon and Jordan was kidnapped today in predominantly Moslem West Beirut, one day after an American educator was abducted on his way to play golf. The police said three men armed with silencer-equipped pistols and riding in a wine-colored BMW automobile intercepted the Lions Club governor, Victor Kenou, at 9:35 AM near the French Embassy compound on Rue Clemenceau. Two of the assailants forced Mr. Kenou out of his white Mercedes-Benz automobile at gunpoint and forced him into their car, the police said.
Libyan officials have told European diplomats that their government is holding the body of an American airman shot down during the April 15 U.S. bombing raid on Libya, Administration officials said. But U.S. officials remain skeptical of the report, saying the Arab nation has yet to offer evidence or positive identification of the flier.
Iraqi warplanes attacked a large oil tanker off the Iranian coast today and raided a large oil refinery in a northern Iranian city, an Iraqi military spokesman reported. The spokesman said the attack in the city of Tabriz, 330 miles north of Tehran, was the second in two days. He used the words “oil tanker” for what is believed to be the first time in more than three years of Iraqi attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf. Previous communiques have always used the phrase “large naval target” for tankers or other merchant vessels. Iraq said all its planes had returned safely. Iran, fighting a nearly seven-year-old war with Iran, said today that it had downed an enemy plane near Tabriz with antiaircraft fire.
Afghan Muslims have opened their biggest assault in years on the capital of Kabul, according to reports reaching Islamabad, Pakistan. Soviet and Government troops backed by jets and tanks were trying to push them back. Afghan guerrilla groups based in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar said their units had been locked in heavy fighting for the last week in the Paghman district, 12 miles north of the capital. There was also fighting in Qarahbagh to the south of Kabul, they said.
Pakistan freed 12 more opposition politicians, including Tikka Khan, secretary general of Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party. Khan was released after 29 days’ detention. Bhutto-freed from jail Monday-consulted leaders of the 10-party Movement for the Restoration of Democracy about an anti-government campaign they threaten to launch if President Zia ul-Haq fails by September 20 to set a date for elections this year. Political sources said that Bhutto discussed extending the deadline, but no decision was reached.
Pakistani officials said the four Palestinian gunmen who opened fire on passengers aboard a Pan American World Airways jetliner last week probably had Pakistani supporters who provided weapons, uniforms and information about airport security. They said they were investigating in an effort to identify those involved. The death toll rose to 19 when an 18-year-old Pakistani, who had been lying brain-dead in a Karachi hospital, died of his wounds.
The West German sea captain whose ship left 155 Sri Lankan castaways in lifeboats off the Canadian coast has been charged with criminal and immigration offenses, but he will not face extradition, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in Toronto. Warrants have been issued for Wolfgang Bindel, 45, of Nordenham, West Germany, and two Sri Lankans living in West Germany also were charged. Canada does not have an extradition treaty with West Germany.
Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile has stirred controversy with a statement that he might lose patience with his critics in Government and that “when I lose my patience I am like Rambo.” “If they say they don’t want us, we’ll say we don’t want them either,” he told troopers at a flag-raising ceremony Monday. It was the latest of a series of provocative statements that seemed designed to raise doubts about his loyalty and his ambitions, and it appeared today to have touched a nerve in Government. Coming on the eve of President Corazon C. Aquino’s visit to the United States next week, and at a moment when negotiations with Communist insurgents are at a delicate stage, one official said: “This little joke he is having over what he might do is beginning to wear thin.”
The army of Surinam has destroyed a rebel base camp in the jungle near the French Guiana border and killed at least three insurgents in a two-day-old offensive, the Government said today. The National Information Service quoted a soldier who was taken prisoner and later freed in an army offensive that started Tuesday as saying three rebels had been killed and two wounded.
The President and First Lady participate in an arrival ceremony for the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil and Mrs. Jose Sarney Costa.
The Chilean government ordered three French priests expelled and banned dispatches by the Italian ANSA news agency under a state of siege imposed after the attempted assassination of President Augusto Pinochet on Sunday. The Roman Catholic Church called for moderation in the enforcement of the crackdown. The Interior Ministry said the priests were initially detained for resisting arrest after political pamphlets were discovered in their parish house during a raid. Later, a Chilean official indicated that the expulsion order might be reconsidered. The Italian news service, authorities said, had filed false information.
About 100 bodies have been recovered after two ships carrying about 700 passengers collided three days ago off Port Harcourt, the police said today. The motor vessels, the Nembe and the Assei, collided Sunday near the Niger River delta. The motor vessels, the Nembe and the Assei, collided Sunday near the Niger River delta. Many people managed to swim to shore, and only five people were listed as missing today. Local fishermen, police and navy officials and divers from Nigeria’s port authority searched for bodies in the Atlantic Ocean off Port Harcourt, about 300 miles southeast of Lagos.
The South African security forces withdrew troops and police dogs from schoolgrounds in Soweto and other black townships today, ending three months of patrols that had set off student boycotts. Attendance was up in some areas, but the Government shut 20 schools and predicted more closings to follow. Militant students had demanded withdrawal of troops from campuses as a condition for ending boycotts, which had left many secondary schools virtually vacant. Primary schools have mostly been spared the boycotts.
The White House Domestic Policy Council recommended that President Reagan approve mandatory drug tests for the 1.1 million government employees in sensitive positions-roughly half the federal work force. The Cabinet-level advisory body, headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese III, failed to agree on whether to recommend that all government job applicants be tested or whether the tests should be limited to people seeking sensitive jobs. Reagan is expected to decide the issue today when he reviews the council’s recommendations.
Top Administration officials generally agreed today on widespread drug testing of Federal employees but could not agree on whether to dismiss second offenders, officials said today. President Reagan is expected to decide Thursday on this and other details of his drive to control drug abuse. With polls showing high public concern, and with an election approaching, Congress, too, is moving rapidly toward action on the issue. The House began debate today on its bipartisan $1.5 billion plan. In an extended White House meeting of the Domestic Policy Council, Cabinet officials engaged in what one Administration aide described as a “fairly strong debate” over the Government’s response if a Federal employee fails a second drug test after undergoing treatment.
An omnibus drug bill advanced in the House despite reservations about some of its provisions and costs and its hasty consideration. The bipartisan measure would provide $1.445 billion in new financing.
The primaries in nine states and the District of Columbia were marked by victories by hard-campaigning women and indicated that voters are not yet united, according to politicians and political consultants. They said that local issues and community activism were more important to voters than ideological attitudes and views on national issues.
Opponents of William H. Rehnquist cited what they said was new evidence that he acted unethically in a Supreme Court case and was not candid in his July testimony about disputed episodes in his past. But backers of his nomination to be Chief Justice dismissed the critics as badly outnumbered liberals seeking pretexts to oppose a leading conservative legal scholar. They said the critics of Justice Rehnquist would muster only 20 or so votes.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony to announce the Boy’s Club of America’s “Youth of the Year.”
A tanker spilled 200,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River and the Coast Guard said it was a major spill. “The total environmental impact will not be determined until morning,” said Coast Guard Lieutenant (j.g.) Aaron Davenport of the Gloucester City (New Jersey) Station. Late Wednesday, a 10-mile oil sheen was present from Bridgeport, New Jersey, to Philadelphia, he said. The oil was expected to reach shore by morning. The vessel, the Viking Osprey, was carrying 550,000 barrels of oil and was docking at a refinery across the river from Philadelphia when the spill was discovered, Davenport said. It was not known how the spill started, he said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it now has 14,484 air traffic controllers, reaching the target set by Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole, and the agency plans to hire 500 more. FAA spokesman Steve Hayes said the work force has 9,352 full performance level controllers who are considered experienced. Before the 1981 strike, the system had nearly 13,400 journeyman controllers and about 3,000 trainees. “We don’t have any plans to go back to that level,” Hayes said.
CBS Inc. had a major shakeup after a tense 11-hour board meeting. The broadcasting giant announced that Thomas H. Wyman had resigned as chairman and chief executive, effective immediately. It said Laurence A. Tisch, its largest shareholder, would become acting chief executive and chairman of a new management committee, to serve until the two regular posts are filled.
The Senate agreed today to give the National Cancer Institute an extra $40 million to $50 million to provide the experimental drug AZT to 10,000 people dying of AIDS. The funds will be shifted from a $1.9 billion program that helps the poor pay heating bills. Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Republican of Connecticut, won approval of the amendment to a bill providing $113 billion for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education for fiscal 1987. The Senate then voted 83 to 2 to approve the measure. The House has approved similar legislation, and the two versions now will go to a conference committee. Senator Weicker said the drug was not a cure, but it could provide an extra six months of life for those afflicted with AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Bryan O’Connor is named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel.
A television producer was jailed today for refusing to give a grand jury videotapes of Detroit gang members sought in the panel’s investigation of the murder of an off-duty Michigan state trooper. Bradley M. Stone, a producer at WJBK-TV in Detroit, began a term in the Wayne County jail for contempt of court that could continue until he surrenders the tapes or until the grand jury’s term expires Jan. 7, 1987. Judge William J. Giovan of Wayne County Circuit Court, who made the original ruling in the case last March, acted after Federal District Judge Richard F. Suhrheinrich declined to overturn the contempt citation. The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled last month that television and radio reporters were not protected under a Michigan law, passed in 1949, that protects journalists for newspapers and other publications from being held in contempt for withholding confidential information from grand juries.
A Polish sailor and his new wife jumped ship in Cleveland today and were seeking political asylum, United States officials said. Christopher and Deata Nowakowska, both 27 years old, of Gdynia, Poland, spent several hours petitioning for asylum with officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Ladd Anthony, an aide to Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, Democrat of Ohio, said the Senator’s office was helping the couple in their petition. They were met at a Cleveland dock by a cousin, Andrew Pawlowski of Southbridge, Mass. The couple left the ship, Ziemia Chelminska. It was the third time in the last nine months that Polish citizens had sought asylum in Cleveland.
Television news coverage of suicides and television dramas about them appear to cause a temporary increase in the number of teen-agers who take their lives, two new studies found. Suicide by teen-agers has tripled since 1950 and is now second only to accidents as a cause of deaths of youths 15 to 19 years old.
The 100-acre historic Truman Annex at Key West, Florda, is now the property of Pritham Singh, a Boston developer who once supported himself there for several months by diving for shells to sell to tourists. Mr. Singh bid $17.25 million for the Navy’s prime waterfront property, along with an offshore island.
Hailing Alfonse M. D’Amato, Mayor Koch called the Republican a much better Senator than Mark Green, the Democratic candidate, could ever be. At the same time, John S. Dyson, who lost the Democratic primary to Mr. Green by about 33,000 votes, pledged to campaign aggressively as the Liberal Party candidate.
Bella S. Abzug won a narrow victory in a four-way House Democratic primary in Westchester County. Despite a late campaign start, Ms. Abzug, a former three-term Congressman from Manhattan, built the largest campaign fund in the race, attracted new voters and drew crowds with celebrity-studded rallies.
Robert E. Chambers Jr. was indicted on charges of murdering 18-year-old Jennifer Dawn Levin in Central Park on August 26. Officials said a grand jury had charged the 19-year-old preparatory school graduate with deliberately asphyxiating Miss Levin by applying substantial and extended pressure to her neck. The pressure, Mr. Morgenthau said, was deliberate. The case, with its suggestion of privileged youth gone awry, has generated widespread publicity since Miss Levin’s body was found by a bicyclist on a grassy knoll behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For parents, educators and psychologists, the strangling of 18-year-old Jennifer Dawn Levin and the arrest of 19-year-old Robert E. Chambers Jr. on a charge of murder have become more than a sensational and notorious criminal case. The events have served to illuminate a subculture of sophisticated, affluent teen-agers regularly partying and club-hopping long past midnight. And much as a suburban car accident that kills several high-school friends forces families there to confront the problem of drunken driving by teen-agers, the Levin case has raised some peculiarly urban questions: Is it harder to rear children amid the glitter and vice of the big city? Is it inevitable to lose control of a 19-year-old? Or have some parents in demanding, high-paying professions substituted money for affection and freedom for supervision? Have they abdicated their role as parents to surrogates? The five parents and step-parents of Miss Levin and Mr. Chambers — both of whom came from homes split by divorce — have not spoken to reporters since the day after the August 26 killing. But the questions extend far beyond the immediate families. A headmaster cited “a generation of students who may have lost their moral bearings,” and a concerned mother asked, “How much ‘no’ can you say?”
Trans World Airlines must reinstate hundreds of senior flight attendants who struck the airline. As expected, Federal District Judge Howard Sachs ruled Tuesday that the airline must reinstate 463 flight attendants whose jobs were taken by trainees on May 17 when the union offered to send its members back to work. Jane Hefflinger, a spokeswoman for the union in Kansas City, said all flight attendants ordered reinstated had at least 21 years of experience. She said about 4,647 other flight attendants who went on strike still did not have jobs with the airline.
The newly commissioned and modernized World War II battleship USS Missouri left Long Beach Harbor on a three-month shakedown cruise that will take it and its 1,600 crew members around the world. After a brief stopover at Pearl Harbor, the 887-foot Missouri will head for Australia.
A “communications breakdown” brought an order to two Air National Guard jets to intercept an unidentified aircraft off the coast of Oregon, the authorities said today. The mystery plane turned out to be a Japan Air Lines cargo jet bound for Los Angeles. “Our people here did not receive a flight plan,” said Staff Sgt. Skip Wiseman of the North American Air Defense Command’s 25th Region. Two Air National Guard F-4 jets from Kingsley Field were rolled out for an alert mission Monday on the orders of the air defense command, which had detected an unknown aircraft 150 miles off the Washington coast. Six minutes later, however, the jet was identified. The alert was turned into a training mission before the F-4’s took off.
Vatican pressure caused Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler of Chicago to resign from the board of Justice Campaign, an interfaith effort to restore Medicaid funds for abortions for women who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest. Traxler, a school sister of Notre Dame, has been ordered not to speak about the issue. Sister Deborah Barrett, campaign national coordinator, said Traxler cited “pressures from Rome” for resigning. Barrett’s non-canonical order is not under Vatican jurisdiction.
Violent thunderstorms over the Great Lakes produced at least three tornadoes in Michigan, killing one woman in Allegan County when a tree toppled onto the car she was driving, officials said. Blustery storms pushed into the Plains bringing high winds, snow and heavy rains that left seven feet of water flowing through the Minnehaha County Courthouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A warm front created temperatures 20 to 30 degrees higher across the Midwest, ending a September cold snap that set record lows in dozens of cities. Chicago reported an overnight low Wednesday of 70 degrees, 27 degrees warmer than Tuesday’s record-low 43 degrees.
A reported incident involving Robert Redford and a customer of a Santa Fe, New Mexico, ice cream shop was denied by the actor, a spokesman said. “I spoke to him (Redford) this morning and he said that it never happened,” said Reid Rosefelt, unit publicist for the “The Milagro Beanfield War,” a movie Redford is producing and directing on location north of Santa Fe. The shop’s manager said that Redford had visited his store but he could not confirm the incident. The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper reported that a woman who spotted Redford at the shop tried to be cool. But after leaving the store, she thought she had forgotten her cone. Upon returning, the story said, Redford told her she could find it in her purse where she had put it.
Major League Baseball:
Jim Rice went 4 for 5 and drove in three runs, and Roger Clemens gained his 22nd victory tonight as the Boston Red Sox won their 11th straight game by beating the Baltimore Orioles, 9–4. Clemens (22–4), who has not given up more than five earned runs in one game all season, yielded four in the second inning. He won his fifth straight decision, allowing six hits in six innings. He struck out six, raising his league-leading total to 217. Rice, who has 20 runs batted in during his last 14 games, hit a home run and three singles. His two-run homer, his 18th, capped a three-run first inning against Ken Dixon (10–12). Rice also hit a tiebreaking, RBI single during a three-run fifth that gave Boston a 6–4 lead. The triumph was the 37th come-from-behind victory for the Red Sox.
The Oakland Athletics topped the Chicago White Sox, 6–2. Jose Rijo pitched a five-hitter and struck out 10 and Donnie Hill hit a three-run homer. Rijo (7–10) walked two as he pitched his fourth complete game.
The Chicago Cubs defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 8–7. Gary Matthews hit two home runs and Jody Davis drove in the winning run with a sixth-inning single today. It was the fourth straight victory for the Cubs, their longest winning streak of the season. Keith Moreland and Bob Dernier added homers for the Cubs, and Mike Schmidt hit two homers for the Phillies, raising his league-leading total to 34. Schmidt’s career total is 492, one short of Lou Gehrig, who is 14th on the career list.
The California Angels edged the Cleveland Indians, 7–6. Mark Ryal singled home the tiebreaking run in the 14th inning. The victory was the 13th in 15 games for the American League West-leading Angels and kept them 8 ½ games ahead of second-place Texas. California set a club record by using 25 players.
The Detroit Tigers beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 11–7. Kirk Gibson and Darnell Coles each hit a pair of two-run homers and Detroit tied a team record with six home runs. The game marked the sixth time the Tigers had hit six homers in a game. They had last done it on August 9, 1971, against Boston. The Tigers tied another team record by hitting four home runs in the fourth inning. Coles, who hit a two-run homer in the third inning, was robbed of a homer in the first inning by Rick Manning’s leaping catch in left field. Rob Deer and Rick Cerone hit homers for Milwaukee and the game total of eight home runs was an American League high for the season.
The Los Angeles Dodgers downed the Houston Astros, 5–1. Steve Sax had four hits and Orel Hershiser and two relievers combined to scatter nine hits as Los Angeles ended the Astros’ four-game winning streak.
The Mets took advantage of Sergio Valdez, a pitcher making his major league debut, and got strong pitching from Ron Darling in defeating the Montreal Expos, 6–1, last night at Shea Stadium. With Philadelphia’s loss in Chicago yesterday afternoon, all the Mets need to clinch the National League Eastern Division title is a victory over the Phillies, which could come as early as tomorrow night, when the teams meet in Philadelphia. “We’ll have to keep playing hard every day,” said Dwight Gooden (14–5), who is scheduled to start tomorrow night. “We can’t afford to let down at any time.”
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–3. Vince Coleman’s ninth-inning triple scored Jose Oquendo with the tiebreaking run. Oquendo led off the ninth with an infield single off Barry Jones (2–3). He advanced on a sacrifice and scored when Coleman tripled off the right-field wall.
The San Diego Padres whipped the Atlanta Braves, 9–4. Graig Nettles’ tie-breaking single highlighted a six-run eighth inning and John Kruk went 4 for 5 with three RBI as San Diego ended a five-game losing streak. Kruk homered earlier in the game, and winning pitcher Lance McCullers finished the scoring with a two-run double in the eighth. McCullers, 8–7, worked the final 1 ⅔ innings. Dale Murphy homered, went 4-for-4 and drove in all four Atlanta runs.
Eric Davis leads the Reds to a 14–2 pasting of the host Giants by belting 3 home runs, scoring 5 runs and knocking in 4. His first two homers are off starter Vida Blue. Davis, who has 26 homers for the season, added a single in the biggest day of his three-year major league career. The last Cincinnati player to hit three home runs in a game was Johnny Bench on May 29, 1980.
The Seattle Mariners fell to the Texas Rangers, 3–2. Ruben Sierra doubled home Bob Brower with two out in the 10th inning. The victory was only the third in nine games for Texas.
The scheduled game between the New York Yankees and the Blue Jays at Toronto was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
Boston Red Sox 9, Baltimore Orioles 4
Oakland Athletics 6, Chicago White Sox 2
Philadelphia Phillies 7, Chicago Cubs 8
California Angels 7, Cleveland Indians 6
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Detroit Tigers 11
Houston Astros 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Montreal Expos 1, New York Mets 6
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Atlanta Braves 4, San Diego Padres 9
Cincinnati Reds 14, San Francisco Giants 2
Seattle Mariners 2, Texas Rangers 3
Stock prices fell moderately yesterday, giving the market its fourth straight loss as investors continued to sell issues that have risen sharply in the last few months. “It’s sick,” Alfred Goldman of A. G. Edwards & Sons Inc. said of the stock market, which, he continued, “acts like a very tired four-year-old bull market that is slowly dismantling.” Since blue-chip stocks reached record levels late last week, prices have been steadily eroding. Yesterday, the Dow Jones industrial average was down another 4.64 points, to 1,879.50. This was the first time since early October 1985 that the Dow has declined for four straight sessions.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1879.5 (-4.64)
Born:
Angel McCoughtry, WNBA forward and guard (WNBA All-Star, 2011, 2013–2015, 2018; Atlanta Dream, Las Vegas Aces, Minnesota Lynx), in Baltimore, Maryland.
Brandon Carter, NFL guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Lakewood, New Jersey.
Ashley Monroe, American country singer-songwriter (Pistol Annies), in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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