American intelligence analysts have concluded that Soviet economic problems have had little effect in impelling Moscow to strike an arms control deal, according to newly declassified Congressional testimony. The findings run counter to President Reagan’s contention that economic pressures are pushing Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, to negotiate. At a news conference last month, Mr. Reagan said that he was “optimistic that we are going to make more progress than probably has been made in a number of years because of some of the problems that are concerning the General Secretary at this time.” In a speech in December, Mr. Reagan mentioned Soviet economic difficulties and said “we hope that with that as a help, maybe we can bring a reduction” in nuclear arms. The American analysts, from the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency, appeared before a closed session of a subcommittee of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.
The United States may propose a combined limit on long-range missiles and bombers in a new strategic arms pact to help bridge the gap between the American and Soviet positions, Administration officials said today. Earlier American proposals called for separate limits. The new plan would allow the Soviet Union to have more missiles than the United States, and the United States more bombers than the Soviet Union.
The White House sought today to maintain a political discussion with the Soviet Union even as pressures mounted to cease conducting business until an American journalist under indictment in Moscow was allowed to return. With the fate of Nicholas S. Daniloff of the magazine U.S. News & World Report now the focus of Soviet-American relations, there were signs of contentiousness within the Government on how tough a line to take. When President Reagan was asked today by reporters whether he had given in by agreeing to a Soviet proposal to turn over both Mr. Daniloff and a Soviet spy suspect in New York to their respective embassies pending trial, Mr. Reagan said, “No one on our side has blinked and I didn’t blink.”
Oopsies: A Soviet submarine-launched missile aimed toward a testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Siberia misfired last Thursday and landed near the Sino-Soviet border, more than 1,500 miles off course, U.S. defense and congressional sources said. The sources said they believe that the unarmed missile landed in Chinese territory near the Manchurian border about 180 miles west of the Soviet city of Khabarovsk. They said that U.S. and Chinese officials have discussed the incident but that the United States does not know if China recovered any portions of the errant dummy warhead.
Terrorists struck again in Paris in the fourth explosion in eight days. Less than 24 hours after the Government announced sweeping new measures to combat a wave of terrorism, a bomb exploded today inside the highly protected headquarters of the Paris police 100 yards from Notre Dame Cathedral. One person was reported killed and 51 wounded, two of them gravely. The lunch-hour bombing, which ripped through an office that issues drivers’ licenses, was the fourth terrorist bombing in and around Paris in eight days. All are thought to be the work of the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners, which is seeking the release of three terrorists held in France. With today’s casualties, the toll in the bombings rose to 3 dead and more than 100 wounded.
There were 150 bomb alerts in Paris through the day, the authorities said. Almost overnight, the City of Light seemed to become a city under siege. The streets of the French capital were filled uncharacteristically with teams of police officers conducting spot checks on identity cards and searching public buildings.
Austria’s Government collapsed today after the junior party in the coalition, the Freedom Party, elected a far-right nationalist as party leader over the weekend. The new party chairman, Jorg Haider, 36 years old, is the most conspicuous exponent of the Freedom Party’s so-called national wing, which inclines to a glorification of a pan-German national identity. Last year, Mr. Haider became embroiled in a controversy when he called a convicted Nazi war criminal “a soldier who had done his duty.”
Strong aftershocks rumbled through southern Greece today, and two more bodies were uncovered from the devastating earthquake of two days ago, raising the death toll to 19. Officials said 37 people were treated for minor injuries after eight buildings, including three apartment houses that had been weakened by the first quake, collapsed in the port city of Kalamata as the aftershocks struck.
The opening of the General Assembly today is marked by concern over whether the United Nations will be able to meet its payroll throughout the year. To save money in the financial crisis, Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar has dropped three weeks from the Assembly session and imposed extensive cuts in staff and services.
President Reagan meets with White House senior staff to discuss his upcoming speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
A second strong earthquake and two minor aftershocks shook southern Greece as rescue teams searched for survivors of a major quake Saturday that killed at least 18 people. The Athens Seismological Institute said the new quake measured 5.6 on the Richter scale, compared to 6.2 for Saturday’s tremor. Police said 37 people were injured by the latest quake in the already battered port city of Kalamata. Two damaged apartment buildings collapsed, but officials had warned residents not to return to their homes, and the government was providing tents to shelter as many as 10,000 people.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel today played down his earlier endorsement of an international conference to pursue a Middle East peace. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden after a 60-minute meeting with President Reagan, Mr. Peres stressed the need for “direct negotiations on a bilateral ground between each of the parties concerned.” He declared, “The international community can support such negotiation, not substitute for it.” This was not a new position, for Israel has long maintained that an international conference would have to lead quickly to direct talks with Jordan and other Arab countries willing to negotiate peace. But the shift of emphasis was dramatic, especially after Mr. Peres’s meeting last week with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
Amnesty International called for full investigations of reports that Arab prisoners were tortured in Israeli-occupied areas and under Israeli supervision in southern Lebanon. The international human rights organization, based in London, said Israeli authorities failed to respond to its appeals to set up independent investigations and make the results public. The organization issued a detailed account of allegations made by a Palestinian, Adnan Mansour Ghanem, who reported that he was beaten, forced to stand for long periods while hooded and handcuffed, prevented from sleeping, suffocated and subjected to ice-cold showers. An Israeli military spokesman strongly denied the charges concerning southern Lebanon, telling reporters that allegations of Israeli supervision of torture were “totally wrong, untrue and slanderous.” Israel in the past has charged that allegations of torture are part of a Palestinian propaganda campaign.
Avraham Shalom, head of Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, has been replaced almost three months after he was pardoned in the 1984 beating deaths of two Palestinian bus hijackers and agreed to resign, legal sources and Israeli newspapers said. The secret nature of Shin Bet makes it virtually impossible to confirm internal personnel movements, and his successor was not identified. In June, President Chaim Herzog pardoned Shalom, two legal aides and another Shin Bet official in connection with the 1984 incident, even though no formal charges were made.
An investigation into the backgrounds of four men who attacked a Pan American World Airways jumbo jet in Pakistan this month has failed to find evidence of a link with any foreign government, according to investigators and other Government sources. The investigators said also that although the four men were undoubtedly assisted by some organization in Pakistan, little progress had been made in identifying it or in finding the presumed accomplices. A man who carried a Libyan passport and was said to have been an accomplice was arrested last week, but a police source said today that the suspect had been seized after officials found that his visa had expired. He said there was no proof that he had been involved in the hijacking.
A Government official has denied Thailand has plans to exchange Laotian Hmong refugees seeking asylum in this country for the Thais being held by the Vientiane Government. Prasong Soonsiri, Secretary General in the Prime Minister’s office, told The Associated Press on Sunday that “it is not our policy to forcibly repatriate refugees.”
The police in Seoul, South Korea were reported tonight to be holding several suspects, including at least one foreigner, in an airport bombing that killed five people on Sunday. Few details were provided, and it was not known if formal charges would be brought. The state-run Korean Broadcasting System said the “two or three” suspects in custody came here on Sunday from Osaka, Japan, and were seized today while trying to board a plane. South Korean officials attributed the explosion on Sunday either to North Korean agents or to “subversive leftists instigated by them.” No one has taken responsibility for the blast, which wounded more than 30 people.
President Corazon C. Aquino left today for a nine-day visit to the United States in search of political and economic support, all at a time when she faces challenges at home both from within and outside her Government. In her visits to Washington, New York, Boston and San Francisco, she plans to meet with President Reagan, address a joint meeting of Congress and speak before the United Nations as well as discuss her country’s ailing economy and its debt obligations with bankers and financial institutions. On her departure from Manila, Mrs. Aquino said she would stand before the American people as “the living proof” of what Filipinos can accomplish, and she pledged her country’s determination to fulfill the “unfair obligations” of its external debt.
A newspaper quoting unidentified law enforcement officials reported today that at least 45 Mexican police and political figures, including the country’s Defense Minister, had been linked to drug trafficking. Federal agents said the Mexican officials were involved in three major drug-trafficking cartels, The San Diego Union reported. The newspaper quoted unidentified sources from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration as saying the evidence was uncovered during an investigation into the February 1985 kidnapping and killing of a United States drug agent, Enrique Camarena, in Guadalajara, Mexico.
With prayers of thanksgiving and deliverance, 69 former political prisoners from Cuba and about 40 members of their families arrived in the United States today. Some of those who helped organize the move hoped their release might signal a break in the immigration impasse between Washington and Havana. A joyous throng of family members and old comrades of the prisoners greeted them with cheers, shouts and tears in Miami following a morning flight from Havana. There were supposed to be 70 prisoners on the chartered plane but one, Juan Gomez Blanco, died in a Havana hospital Sunday night, just hours before he was scheduled to board the flight. He had been released from a Cuban prison Thursday. Another, Jose Sanchez Pruna, collapsed in Miami at sprawling Tropical Park where the prisoners were taken to meet friends and relatives.
Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte pledged today to go alone to a site chosen for a new round of peace talks, even though leftist rebels said Sunday night that they refused to meet him there. At talks in Panama to make arrangements for the peace conference, rebel officials had demanded that the Government withdraw army units that have recently been sent into the area of eastern El Salvador where the two sides were to meet this Friday.
Bolivia authorized 170 U.S: servicemen assisting an anti-cocaine drive to remain in the country until mid-November. Foreign Minister Guillermo Bedregal told reporters the government decided to permit the Americans to stay for 60 more days because the nation’s police force needs more communications and transport equipment before it can fight the drug traffickers alone. The U.S. personnel arrived with six Black Hawk helicopters on July 14 to provide logistical support for an attack on the cocaine trade.
Most of Brazil’s 750,000 bank workers returned to their jobs after suspending a strike to demand wage increases, union leaders said. In Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, the strike ended Friday, but in Sao Paulo, the country’s largest industrial center, and other cities bank employees had continued staying away from work. Stevedores at the port of Santos remained on strike, as did schoolteachers and welfare workers. On Saturday, flight attendants of the domestic airline Vasp went on strike for salary increases, and 78 flights were canceled over the weekend.
South Africa appointed a law professor of Indian descent to be its first nonwhite foreign ambassador today. The announcement seemed timed to coincide with a meeting in Brussels today of West European foreign ministers gathered to decide whether to impose a package of punitive economc measures against South Africa. The appointment of Prof. Bhandra Ranchod, 42 years old, to be Ambassador to the European Community also coincided with continued crisis in the nation’s black schools and continued violence in black townships despite a state of emergency imposed June 12. Mr. Ranchod has experienced apartheid laws at first hand; he was recently refused permission to move into a segregated, white suburb of Durban.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz has tentatively decided to visit South Africa next month to show the Administration’s interest in a negotiated end to apartheid, State Department officials said today. He would be the highest-ranking Reagan Administration official to make such a visit, and the trip would occur amid sharp differences between the Administration and Congress over new sanctions against South Africa. State Department officials said Mr. Shultz planned to visit about eight African countries on a trip of 10 days to two weeks. The countries include Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Zaire, Kenya, Zambia and Botswana.
Foreign Ministers of the 12 European Common Market nations appeared deadlocked tonight over proposals for a limited package of economic sanctions against South Africa. The development came after West Germany and Portugal refused to agree to bans of valuable imports of South African coal, even though they had previously joined the other 10 Common Market nations in agreeing to do so at a summit meeting last July. The disagreement tonight arose after the Netherlands, supported by Denmark and Ireland, insisted that the 12 nations include coal in their sanctions package, along with a proposed ban on imports of gold coins, iron and steel, and a prohibition against new industrial investments. “The credibility of the Community is at stake,” said Denmark’s Foreign Minister, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen. “If we do not sanction coal, it is better to have no sanctions at all.”
President Reagan signs Executive Order 12564 and the transmittal to Congress on proposed legislation on the National campaign against drug abuse. The President, fighting drug abuse, formally proposed a $900 million program and ordered the heads of Federal agencies to establish a program to test for evidence of drug abuse among employees in sensitive posts. Mr. Reagan urged the Senate to enact House-approved legislation that would make the death penalty applicable to some drug crimes and that would allow the use of illegally obtained evidence in trials. The House has already acted on bills incorporating these two provisions, and Senate Republican leaders working on new drug legislation were reported to be considering extending the death penalty to drug-related Federal crimes. But in a significant split with the House, the President rejected a provision in its legislation that would require the use of the armed forces to curb the flow of narcotics. White House officials had said previously that the President was concerned about the military being required to make drug arrests.
Senate Republican leaders are considering introducing legislation to expand the use of the death penalty beyond drug-related Federal crimes, aides to the Republican leadership said today. One aide said the expanded death penalty “will definitely” be included in a wide-ranging package of drug law-enforcement measures scheduled to be unveiled by Senate Republicans on Wednesday. Another aide cautioned that final decisions about the package would not be made until after Republicans have their weekly policy luncheon on Tuesday.
Doctors can test people for drug use with greater precision than ever before because of advances in biotechnology. But experts say the tests are expensive and, if not done properly, can be highly inaccurate. A Federal study has shown that many laboratories have made such serious errors in testing urine for evidence of drugs that the results were unreliable much of the time. The Government and some professional organizations have begun an attempt to raise industry standards. They are taking initial steps to insure better quality control because false results can have devastating effects, costing people jobs and reputations.
Bob Dole, the Senate majority leader, moved tonight to cut off debate on the nomination of Justice William H. Rehnquist to be Chief Justice of the United States. The Kansas Republican filed his cloture petition after Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, one of Justice Rehnquist’s leading opponents, refused to agree to a vote on Tuesday. Under Senate rules, debate will continue on Tuesday for a fourth day. On Wednesday, there will be a vote on ending the debate. The Senate’s Republican leadership expects to easily get the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, and the nomination would then come to a vote later Wednesday.
The U.S. may end a plea bargain with John A. Walker Jr. because of signs that the Navy veteran is lying about his Soviet spy ring, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger suggested. The Justice Department has confirmed that polygraph tests suggested that Mr. Walker might be lying about the size and origin of his Navy espionage ring.
Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said that a spate of rumored leaks of sensitive economic data turned out to be nothing more than lucky guesses, and that investors who trade on such rumors are fools. Baldrige said in Washington that an investigation by the department’s inspector general had found no evidence of premature release of government statistics despite rumored leaks of the data in financial markets on four occasions in recent weeks. The government’s statistics often prompt wide swings in the stock and bond markets as investors react to news of the economy’s performance.
For the first time in 50 years, the Senate opened an impeachment proceeding today, to consider the removal of Federal District Judge Harry E. Claiborne of Las Vegas, who is serving a two-year prison term for tax evasion. A special committee of 12 Senators assembled in the Senate Caucus Room to hear charges against Judge Claiborne, 69 years old, who was convicted by a trial court in 1984 but has continued to maintain his innocence and refused to resign. Under the United States Constitution, Judge Claiborne could be removed only by the formal impeachment of Congress. Judge Claiborne, who attended today’s proceedings, has lifetime tenure and has said he intends to return to his $78,700-a-year judicial post when he completes his prison term.
House action on the tax overhaul bill has been delayed until at least next week to give congressional aides a few more days to “fine-tune” the measure, congressional sources said. The bill, which limits numerous tax breaks in exchange for lower rates, is essentially complete, the sources said, except for transition rules, which are specialized tax breaks for specific firms or industries. They said the bill probably would be filed Thursday and that the House would take it up next Tuesday. The House is expected to pass the bill quickly and send it to the Senate.
Federal health officials are trying to decide whether azidothymidine, an experimental drug that has shown good results in treating AIDS, should immediately be made available to more, or perhaps all, AIDS victims, a spokesman for the Public Health Service confirmed. The drug stops reproduction of the AIDS virus in test tubes and, in tests involving 140 patients, those receiving the drug improved, compared to patients receiving placebos. However, researchers are concerned that the drug may prove more toxic when tested among large numbers of patients.
The largest casino workers’ union in Atlantic City, New Jersey, struck eight of the resort’s 11 gaming halls after midnight in a dispute over wages and benefits, union officials said. “Most of the casinos have large groups (of pickets) in front of them and so far they’re orderly,” said city police Chief Joseph Pasquale. The Hotel and Restaurant and Employees and Bartenders International union strike was the first by waitresses, bartenders, chambermaids and messengers since gambling began there in 1978.
In a move that would have wide effects on the airline industry, the Texas Air Corporation will acquire People Express in a stock deal, the airlines announced yesterday. The deal was the latest step in Texas Air’s efforts to become the nation’s largest air carrier. The Houston-based holding company already owns Continental and New York Air, and it has asked the Transportation Department to reconsider its proposed $600 million acquisition of Eastern Air Lines. The deal for People also needs Government approval. People Express, which became a symbol of a lean low-cost, no-frills airline that forced established carriers to cut their fares, had sought a takeover because of its weakened financial condition. Its management believed that the airline could not get through the winter, when traffic is weak, without a quick infusion of cash.
With support from the elderly, women and blue-collar voters, Joseph P. Kennedy 2d appears to hold a narrow lead over his closest opponent in Tuesday’s primary for the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives. The latest poll, published last week by The Boston Globe, showed the 33-year-old Mr. Kennedy with 39 percent of the vote to 34 percent for his closest rival, George Bachrach, a State Senator. The poll of 605 adults likely to vote in the primary, which was conducted September 2-6, had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points. The battle for the seat being vacated by Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., the retiring Speaker of the House, has become the most closely watched in Massachusetts this fall, and since the poll was conducted Mr. Kennedy is widely believed to have built a more solid lead because he was endorsed by Mr. O’Neill, Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, and The Globe.
Midway through a speech to rally the troops, Kay Orr, the Republican candidate for Governor, paused to acknowledge her spouse. “And now I’d like to introduce a very important partner in all of this — Mr. Kay Orr,” she said. William Orr, an insurance executive, took his place with the smiling forbearance perfected by generations of political wives. Nebraskans have grown accustomed to such good-natured role reversals in recent weeks, as the nation’s first gubernatorial contest between two women has gathered steam. The race pits Mrs. Orr, the State Treasurer, against Helen Boosalis, a Democrat who is the former Mayor of Lincoln. It is considered one of the closest gubernatorial races in the country.
The trial of General Dynamics Corporation on charges that it and four of its top executives overcharged the Government by more than $7.5 million has been delayed because of a Federal district judge’s ruling today. Judge Ferdinand Fernandez said he wanted the Government’s Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals to interpret the contract that is the crux of the case before it goes to trial.
Volunteers trying to rescue seals and porpoises cut off from the sea by a surging Alaskan glacier have been ordered by Wrangell-St. Elias National Park officials to stay off the ice dam for safety reasons, officials said. Howard Rosenfeld, director of Washington state’s Friday Harbor Whale Museum, which is coordinating the rescue, said the rescuers will obey. But he said they might place food along the dam to lure the animals close enough to be captured. Volunteers will keep trying to save the animals from starvation for at least another week.
Black Hebrew sect leader Warren Brown was sentenced in Washington to 30 years in prison for his part in a multimillion-dollar racket involving stolen airline tickets, credit cards and embezzlement. U.S. District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr. gave Brown, alias Prince Asiel, maximum terms on racketeering and conspiracy convictions. James Stone and Gerald Bethea, two of Brown’s chief aides, received equal prison terms for the same offenses, and five others convicted in the scheme received lesser sentences.
First broadcast of legal drama “L.A. Law” created by Steven Bochco, with ensemble cast including Corbin Bersen, Jill Eikenberry and Harry Hamlin on NBC.
Joe Montana, who led the San Francisco 49ers to two Super Bowl victories, underwent back surgery yesterday to correct a ruptured disk that threatens his career. Doctors said they removed the extended part of the disk but did not have to fuse the disk, which would have been necessary for a more-serious injury. The operation, performed at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco, took almost two hours. Montana will be sidelined for the rest of the season. Last night, Montana’s agent, Larry Muno, said he came through surgery “better than expected.”
Major League Baseball:
The California Angels edged the Chicago White Sox, 6–5. Urbano Lugo, making his first start of the season, pitched a three-hit scoreless ball for six and two-thirds innings and Ruppert Jones had a two-run sacrifice fly in a five-run seventh-inning to help California. Lugo (1–0), making only his second appearance in the major leagues this season, gave up three singles along with four walks and four strikeouts before giving up a two-run homer to Dave Cochrane in the seventh. It was Cochrane’s first major league home run and chased Lugo from the game. Lugo, called up from Class AAA Edmonton on September 1, played with the Angels for a majority of the 1985 season, compiling a 3–4 record and a 3.69 earned run average. Donnie Moore pitched the final one and two-thirds innings to earn his 19th save.
The Cleveland Indians blanked the Minnesota Twins, 4–0. Tom Candiotti pitched a seven-hitter, and Tony Bernazard broke a scoreless tie with a fifth-inning homer as Cleveland won its fourth straight victory. Candiotti (14–11) outdueled Minnesota’s Frank Viola (14–12). Candiotti notched his 14th complete game of the season.
Rookie left-hander John Cerutti, 9–3, pitched seven strong innings, and Willie Upshaw hit a three-run homer to break a 2–2 tie in the fifth as Toronto beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 5–2. Upshaw’s two-out homer, his eighth, drove in Lloyd Moseby and Jesse Barfield. Moseby had doubled and Barfield walked against Bill Wegman, 4–12. Bill Schroeder accounted for the Milwaukee runs with a two-run homer in the fourth. Cerutti gave up six hits, walked four and struck out two in seventh innings plus. Tom Henke got the last six outs for his 21st save.
Rafael Palmeiro hit a two-run double and Chico Walker had four hits, scored two runs and drove in one for Chicago as the Cubs topped the Montreal Expos, 7–3. Jamie Moyer (6–4) went five innings, giving up two runs on nine hits, for the victory. Scott Sanderson pitched the final four innings and got his first save since 1983. Sergio Valdez (0–2) lost his second major-league start, allowing four runs in five innings. The Cubs, who had 15 hits in the game, went ahead in the first inning when Walker singled, Sandberg walked and Palmeiro sent both runners home with a double. Palmeiro’s double-play ball brought in a run in the third, scoring Walker, who had hit a double. In the fourth inning Ryne Sandberg singled home Moyer, making it 4–0.
The fortunes of the American League’s top two relief pitchers continued moving in opposite directions last night as the Yankees trimmed the Orioles, 5–3. Don Mattingly was primarily responsible for the latest developments in the late-inning lives of Dave Righetti and Don Aase. Mattingly, who had batted 57 times since last hitting a home run, crushed a pitch from Aase in the seventh inning and rocketed it over the fence in right-center field for a three-run home run that obliterated a 3–2 Baltimore lead. The home run, Mattingly’s 26th, not only spoiled Aase’s chances for a save, but also created a save opportunity for Righetti.
Pete O’Brien’s two-run double in the third inning triggered a four-run outburst and the Texas Rangers, behind Charlie Hough, eased to a 6–2 victory over the Oakland Athletics. Hough, a veteran knuckleballer, 13–10, went six-plus innings, giving up three hits, walking four and striking out five.
Don Carman pitched a four-hitter, John Russell drove in four runs with a double and triple, and Mike Schmidt hit a home run tonight as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5–0 for their fourth straight victory. Russell doubled in two runs in the second and tripled in two in the fourth. Schmidt hit a home run for the Phillies’ fifth run, his 36th home run of the season — best in the majors. It was the 494th home run of Schmidt’s career and moved him past Lou Gehrig into 14th place on the career list. Carman (9–5) pitched his first major-league shutout, although he did pitch nine shutout innings in his perfect-game bid last month.
You can make of it what you will, but the Mets lost for the fourth straight time tonight and were shut out for the second straight time. And they were no closer to clinching the championship of the National League’s East than they were four days ago. Not only that, but they were beaten in 13 innings by the St. Louis Cardinals, 1–0, when Roger McDowell walked a pinch-hitter on the 3-and-2 count with the bases loaded. And, for the first time in five years, the Mets were held scoreless for two games in a row. In fact, they haven’t scored a run now in 23 innings during their most silent slump of an otherwise runaway season.
California Angels 6, Chicago White Sox 5
Minnesota Twins 0, Cleveland Indians 4
Toronto Blue Jays 5, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Chicago Cubs 7, Montreal Expos 3
Baltimore Orioles 3, New York Yankees 5
Texas Rangers 6, Oakland Athletics 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Philadelphia Phillies 5
New York Mets 0, St. Louis Cardinals 1
NFL Monday Night Football:
John Elway threw three touchdown passes tonight as the Denver Broncos held off a fourth-quarter Pittsburgh rally to defeat the Steelers, 21–10. Pittsburgh’s dormant offense, held without a touchdown for eight consecutive quarters dating to last season, broke through for Rich Erenberg’s 7-yard scoring run with 9 minutes 54 seconds remaining as the Steelers closed to within 4 points. But a reserve running back, David Hughes, fumbled on third and 1 at the Broncos’ 35-yard line on Pittsburgh’s next possession. On the Steelers’ next possession, Malone was intercepted by Tony Lilly. Denver (2–0) then drove 31 yards for the clinching touchdown on a 13-yard pass from Elway to Sammy Winder, a running back, with 1:53 to play. It was the third consecutive victory in Pittsburgh for the Broncos.
Denver Broncos 21, Pittsburgh Steelers 10
Wall Street steadied yesterday after the turbulent days of record trading and price declines last Thursday and Friday. The New York stock market returned to a relatively normal trading pattern, and the bond market also recovered. Investors bought stocks very selectively and in modest amounts, preferring blue-chip issues over the shares of smaller companies that might be more vulnerable to shifts in the nation’s economy. Volume shrank sharply, falling to 155.6 million shares from Friday’s record-setting 240.5 million. After a 141-point decline in the previous five sessions, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 8.86 points yesterday, to 1,767.58. However, 837 stocks fall in price on the Big Board and only 801 gained.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1767.58 (+8.86)
Born:
Heidi Montag, American reality television star (“The Hills”), in Crested Butte, Colorado.
Jenna Mourey, American internet personality and YouTuber (“JennaMarbles”), in Rochester, New York.
Brit Miller, NFL linebacker (San Francisco 49ers, St. Louis Rams), in Decatur, Illinoois.
Kevin Barnes, NFL cornerback (Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions), in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Dionte Christmas, NBA small forward (Phoenix Suns), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Crystal Kelly, WWNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs, Detroit Shock, San Antonio Silver Stars), in Louisville, Kentucky.
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