In a reversal that may pave the way for the first major arms accord under his Administration, President Reagan has decided to explore a Soviet suggestion on how to verify an agreement for preventing accidental war, Administration officials said today. The suggestion, which involves monitoring troop movements in the Soviet Union using Soviet planes, grows out of discussions at a 35-nation East-West conference in Stockholm that is scheduled to end on Friday. Officials said they thought that Mr. Reagan’s decision had put the two sides within striking distance of an accord by then. The issue of whether to pursue the Soviet suggestion has been contested within the Administration. Mr. Reagan’s decision to discuss it in Stockholm is regarded as a rebuff to civilian officials in the Pentagon. The basic aim of the Stockholm conference is to reduce the chances that miscalculation can lead to war in Europe. The parley sought to devise procedures under which notice of troop movements would be given and the movements monitored. The key remaining issue is how to monitor the movements from the air, officials said. The Soviet Union, in a concession, agreed in August to allow aerial inspection of Warsaw Pact nations as far east as the Urals, the conventional boundary of Europe.
Gennadi F. Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations accused of espionage, said today that he was the victim of a setup by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In his first public statement since his arrest on August 23, Mr. Zakharov said there was no connection between his case and that of Nicholas S. Daniloff, an American reporter who Washington says has been charged with espionage in Moscow as a retaliation. “I am convinced a provocation was organized by the secret services of the United States,” Mr. Zakharov said in Russian through an interpreter at a news conference. “In other words, it was set up.”
The Reagan Administration is entangled in what could become its most protracted and complicated foreign policy test, and the view is widespread here among political leaders, policy experts and even Administration officials that the Reagan team may have put itself into a no-win situation. No matter which way President Reagan turns in the crisis over Nicholas S. Daniloff, he stands to lose something important. If he tries to go forward with summit preparations while the American correspondent is still facing espionage charges, he risks destroying his prime base of support among conservatives and moderates. If he subordinates everything to Mr. Daniloff’s release and Moscow refuses to buckle under, officials feel he can say farewell to his hopes for a summit meeting and for arms control.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that he had a “plan of action” against the Soviet Union that would be carried out if an American reporter confined to Moscow on espionage charges was not allowed to return to the United States soon. An Administration official said that on Wednesday the State Department is expected to provide the Soviet Mission to the United Nations with a list of 25 diplomats who must leave the United States by October 1. The move would be in keeping with an American directive in March that the Soviet Union reduce the size of its combined Soviet, Ukrainian and Byelorussian missions by one-third over three years. Because the directive was issued well before the crisis over the American journalist, the official said there was no “direct linkage.” But he said the decision to press for the reduction in the face of a Soviet protest last week should be seen as an initial response.
The State Department is reviewing visa applications for six Soviet scientists who had been scheduled to arrive in the United States on Sunday to set up seismic stations in Nevada and California to monitor U.S. nuclear tests, a spokesman said. The spokesman did not indicate whether the review was connected with Soviet espionage charges against U.S. reporter Nicholas Daniloff. The Soviet team is part of a joint project with the U.S. Natural Resources Defense Council, a private group that is setting up stations in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan to monitor Soviet nuclear tests.
Thirty East Bloc diplomats have been exposed by West German counterintelligence as spies, and three have already left the country, the West German newspaper Bild reported. It said the remaining 27 diplomats face the possibility of expulsion from West Germany for espionage activities. However, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said that the report on possible expulsions was speculation.
The festive atmosphere outside the United Nations today, where various groups staged a peace walk, a peace run and a minute of prayer for peace, contrasted sharply with the mood inside, where the opening of the three-month General Assembly session was dominated by talk of how to keep the organization solvent. The Assembly chose the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, as its president, replacing Jaime de Pinies of Spain. Mr. Choudhury, a career diplomat from one of the world’s poorest nations, said he would push for change at the United Nations. “We in a country like Bangladesh are expert in managing with very small resources,” he said.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel expressed doubt today that the Soviet Union was close to restoring diplomatic relations with his country and repeated his longstanding position that such ties were a prerequisite to accepting Moscow as a participant in any Middle East peace conference. Despite indications over the last year that the Russians were considering such a move, Mr. Peres described the Soviet response to the Israeli condition as contradictory and unclear. “Whether the Russians will accept it or not nobody really knows,” he said in an address following high-level meetings with United States officials. “You have a smile on the Russian face, you have a warm Russian hand.” But he added: “The Russian policy reminds me so much of a British bathroom where you have cold water and hot water, but you can’t mix them together to wash your face.”
Israel’s Justice Ministry said it is investigating reports by Amnesty International that Arab prisoners were tortured in Israeli-occupied territories and south Lebanon. A statement said the London-based human rights group will soon provide the ministry with a detailed report on the allegations by former prisoners in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The ministry denied any responsibility for alleged torture in a detention center in Israel’s self-proclaimed security zone in south Lebanon.
France is offering a reward of $150,000 for information leading to the arrest of two brothers of a Lebanese prisoner in France, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, or of anyone responsible for the wave of bombings in Paris. The two brothers are said to be suspects in the kidnapping of a Frenchman in Lebanon.
The underground terrorist group that calls itself Islamic Holy War said today that quick action was needed to insure what it called “a happy ending” for three American hostages in Lebanon. A statement by the group accused the Reagan Administration of paying a higher price in the case of the American journalist being held in Moscow, Nicholas S. Daniloff, than it would for the Americans held in Lebanon. The statement was delivered to an international news agency office in Moslem-controlled West Beirut along with a photograph of one of the hostages, David P. Jacobsen, and a three-page handwritten letter in English supposedly written by him. But awkward phrasings sprinkled through the letter suggested that it was coerced or was written by the captors.
Iraq claimed that its warplanes dealt three “violent blows” to Iran’s Kharg Island oil-loading facilities. Maritime shipping and salvage executives based in Bahrain said it appeared that the strikes were among the most destructive since Iraq announced a blockade of Kharg, Iran’s main oil-exporting facility, 2 ½ years ago. Meanwhile, Tehran radio claimed that Iranian troops captured strategic heights along the Iraqi border, about 105 miles southeast of Baghdad, in an overnight assault. Iraq denied the report.
The South Korean Government closed three universities in Seoul today, bringing to five the number of schools ordered to shut down during the 16-day Asian Games, which are to open here this weekend. Officials said more closings were possible. Some of the campuses are to be used for sports events, and the Government apparently feared that it risked being embarrassed by a new outbreak of violent student demonstrations that have been staged almost daily for weeks. The ordered shutdowns reflected a steady tightening of security throughout the South Korean capital after the bombing that killed 5 people and wounded about 30 others on Sunday at Kia Kimpo International Airport. South Korea says the explosion was the work of either “North Korean agents or subversive leftists instigated by them.” But the North dismissed the charge today as “false propaganda” invented by the South for “a sinister political purpose.”
Philippine military authorities began rearresting some of the 26 men whose acquittal in the 1983 assassination of Benigno S. Aquino Jr. was set aside last week by the Philippine Supreme Court. First to be taken into custody was Sgt. Rogelio Moreno, the alleged triggerman in the airport slaying of the husband of the current Philippine president, Corazon Aquino. The 26 defendants-25 soldiers and a civilian-were tried and acquitted last year, but the Supreme Court called the trial a sham.
Corazon C. Aquino, President of the Philippines, thanked her supporters in the United States today for helping to bring about a “successful, bloodless revolution” in her homeland. President Aquino, on a nine-day visit to the United States, spoke to more than 2,000 people at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, described as the largest Roman Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere. The audience, composed of Filipinos and Americans, hailed her with rhythmic chants of “Cory, Cory, Cory!” He remarks mixed patriotism and religion. “I request that you pray for our Government,” she said, “that we do not act like kings but rather as servants of the people and of the true King.”
The U.S. will admit more Cubans who seek to emigrate for political reasons, according to a high State Department official. But the official cautioned that Washington would continue to examine requests by Cuban dissidents on a case-by-case basis.
The Nicaraguan Government, trying to improve its relations with the Roman Catholic Church, announced today that President Daniel Ortega Saavedra will meet with Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo on September 27. The two last met in December 1984. Mr. Ortega described that session as “very positive,” but it did not produce any visible improvement in church-state relations. Cardinal Obando has said that peace can come to Nicaragua only if the Government agrees to open talks with all groups, including the insurgents backed by the United States. The Government has vowed not to talk with the rebels on the ground that they are agents of American policy.
Hundreds of heavily armed riot police stormed a Brazilian prison in Presidente Venceslau, 396 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, crushing a rebellion in which inmates had taken 14 prison employees hostage. Eight inmates were slain during the assault, three died later of wounds and two others were seriously injured, police said. Seven hostages reportedly received minor wounds. The inmates had threatened to kill the hostages unless they were provided with a bus, two cars, four machine guns and safe conduct out of the prison, police said.
Chile’s military government lifted an eight-day ban on the British news agency Reuters but continued to prohibit dispatches from Chile by the Italian agency ANSA. Reuters was halted last week because its dispatches reflected “an unacceptable tone,” a government spokesman said. The Italian agency ANSA was banned for dispatching “false and tendentious information that offended the armed forces,” a government spokesman said.
A fire broke out in a South African gold mine today, killing at least 44 miners with toxic gas and leaving 154 men missing underground, according to the mine owners. More than 180 people were reported under treatment after escaping or being rescued from the gas fumes. About two-thirds of the the injured, and all of the dead, were said to be blacks. Earlier in the evening, South Africa’s Government-controlled television reported that “hope is fading fast” for the miners said to be missing more than 5,000 feet underground. The television broadcast said the accident could be one of the worst in South Africa’s mining history. Before rescue teams reached some of the injured the television quoted rescue officials as saying there “only a slight chance” that 240 trapped miners would survive 10 hours after the fire filled shafts deep below ground with poisonous gases. The broadcast was made two hours before officials from the mine revised their death toll from 13 to 44. The South African Press Association quoted Kobus van Zyl, a civil defense official, as saying “there has been a very serious disaster today.”
‘We have been asked to handle a massive number of corpses,” Mr. van Zyl was quoted as saying. The officer was also reported to have said the mine’s owner, the General Mining Union Corporation., was refusing to cooperate with civil defense agencies. The South African Press Association quoted unconfirmed reports from an unidentified witness who said rescue teams had brought up at least 100 bodies from the mine. Eight rescue teams were sent into the Kinross mine, 60 miles east of Johannesburg, tonight to try to rescue those trapped underground, the owners said. According to the owners, the disaster began when a welding operation started a fire at 9:30 AM. Toxic fumes from burning cables and other equipment were said to have spread through the No. 2 shaft at a cross-cut — a junction between two major shafts. When the fire broke out, the owners said, 2,200 workers were in the area and nearly 2,000 were evacuated, 60 of them suffering from inhalation of toxic gas. The number of injured was placed later at 180.
Foreign Ministers of the 12 European Community countries agreed to impose limited new economic sanctions on South Africa today, saying the Pretoria Government had failed to respond to their appeals to dismantle apartheid. The officials agreed to ban imports of iron and steel and of gold coins from South Africa and to prohibit new investment there by European companies. But after two days of arduous negotiations, West Germany vetoed a proposed ban on purchases of South African coal tentatively agreed on by the 12 in June, saying this would create unacceptable hardship among black mine workers. The 12 nations agreed to continue discussions on coal imports to see whether they can agree to include them in the sanctions package later.
The 1988 Presidential drive began formally as Pierre S. duPont 4th, a former Governor of Delaware, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination. Mr. duPont called for mandatory drug testing of all teen-agers, work programs to replace welfare, an end to Government involvement in farming and a program of Government loans for anyone seeking a college education or job training.
President Reagan will veto the spending bills the House and Senate are now considering unless major changes are made, according to White House aides. They said that Mr. Reagan had told Congressional leaders he would veto the bill for the fiscal year beginning October 1 even if the Government had to be shut down temporarily.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony on the occasion of Hispanic Heritage Week.
The first G.O.P. Senator to oppose explicitly the confirmation of William H. Rehnquist as Chief Justice is Lowell P. Weicker Jr. In a speech on the Senate floor, Weicker said he could not vote for Rehnquist because the jurist has rendered decisions based on philosophy rather than justice. The Senator deplored Justice Rehnquist’s “unrelieved predisposition toward achieving a specific philosophical end while leaving reality unexplained or misspoken.”
A major issue in the Senate debate on the nomination of Justice William H. Rehnquist to be Chief Justice of the United States is whether he acted unethically when he refused to disqualify himself in a 1972 Supreme Court decision on Army surveillance of political groups, and whether he testified deceptively about it in July. The matter took a new twist today as opponents of Justice Rehnquist filed a motion urging the Supreme Court to reopen the case, in which Justice Rehnquist cast the deciding vote in the 5-to-4 decision dismissing a challenge to the Army surveillance. Today’s motion argued, as have some senators opposing the nomination, that new evidence showed Justice Rehnquist’s refusal to disqualify himself in the case, Laird v. Tatum, violated judicial ethics and due process of law. The critics say Justice Rehnquist, both in 1972 and in his testimony in July to the Senate Judiciary Committee, failed to disclose crucial facts concerning his involvement in 1969 in setting policy on Army surveillance.
The Senate approved an $8-billion appropriations bill that includes a Reagan Administration-backed proposal to sell the Naval Petroleum Reserves. The Senate voted for the proposal to sell the oil reserves at Elk Hills, California, on the grounds the sale eventually would net the government at least $2.4 billion. The bill, which finances the Interior Department and related agencies, also passed with an amendment opposed by environmentalists that provides $246 million for forest road construction, $68 million above the level proposed by the Administration for fiscal 1987.
The House passed compromise legislation reauthorizing anti-poverty programs from Head Start to low-income energy assistance. The bill was then sent to the Senate. The measure, worked out by House and Senate negotiators, authorizes spending of up to $3.7 billion in 1987, with increases in subsequent years, for Head Start, beforeand after-school care, community services block grants, community nutrition programs and the energy aid program, which helps pay heating bills for low-income people.
The E.P.A. may curb alachlor, the nation’s most widely used herbicide, agency officials said. The Environmental Protection Agency has been reconsidering its approval of the herbicide because it has been found to cause cancer in laboratory test animals.
U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne’s conviction for income tax evasion stemmed from improper searches of his home by federal investigators and intimidation of witnesses, the judge’s attorney told a Senate panel conducting Claiborne’s impeachment trial. The attorney, Oscar B. Goodman, said that FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents harassed Claiborne’s tax preparers into perjuring themselves. Goodman sought to expand permitted testimony in the trial to include evidence of “rude, crude” treatment of witnesses. The senators did not immediately rule on the request.
Alexander M. Haig Jr. and other former government officials can be sued by Indians who contend the military illegally intervened to end the armed occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973, a federal court ruled. The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals backed a ruling by one of its three-judge panels that military personnel should have been used only with specific authorization by Congress or then-President Richard M. Nixon. The Indians charged that Air Force planes had been used for surveillance and high-ranking military officers were on hand to direct the government’s effort to end the standoff. Haig was then vice chief of staff of the Army.
Joseph P. Kennedy 2d won the Democratic primary for the House seat being vacated by Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. The 1946 primary for that Boston-area seat launched the political career of the candidate’s uncle, John F. Kennedy. The candidate has been president of Citizens Energy, which provides low-cost heating oil to poor people.
A Federal appeals court today ordered a trial to determine whether members of the Nixon Administration illegally used the Army to quell an Indian uprising at the village of Wounded Knee in 1973. Fourteen Indians had filed suit saying Alexander M. Haig Jr., then the White House chief of staff, and Richard G. Kleindienst, the Attorney General, along with other Administration officials, violated the Posse Comitatus Act by ordering in the military.
The Air Force’s new AMRAAM air-to-air missile completed a successful test last Friday, for the first time relying on its own radar system to intercept a maneuvering drone, the Pentagon said. The test at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico was the first in which the missile was fired by a pilot visually and the first in which the missile did not receive any targeting data from the plane’s radar system after it was fired, the Pentagon said.
Most states bar bias against victims of AIDS. The states, which include New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, have laws prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped and they have declared the disease a handicap.
Mayor Harold Washington’s re-election hopes got an apparent lift today when a judge barred from the November 4 ballot a referendum that proposed changing the way the city elects its mayor. Judge Joseph Schneider of the Cook County Circuit Court upheld the city elections board’s 2-to-1 decision to bar the referendum, which asked voters whether to change the mayoral contest from its two-party primary format to a nonpartisan election.
A bomb exploded outside the Coeur D’Alene, Idaho home of a Roman Catholic priest who has been leading the opposition to white supremacists there, causing serious damage but no injuries, the police said. The priest, the Rev. Bill Wassmuth, leader of the Kootenai County Human Relations Task Force, said he had his suspicions about the source of the bomb, but would not comment further.
The California Office of Emergency Services issued an earthquake advisory for the White Mountain Fault area north and east of Bishop, saying a series of small quakes had been recorded and that a quake as strong as 5.0 on the Richter scale might occur within the next three or four days. At the same time the office cautioned that it could not be certain any quake would occur. The area involved is the same one struck by a series of temblors, the strongest 6.1, in July.
A woman accused of frightening an elderly woman to death by ramming the victim’s garage with a car and breaking into her home was convicted of second-degree murder. Gaye Crim Langley, 41, of Royal Oak, Michigan, was found guilty by an Oakland County Circuit Court jury in the death of 71-year-old Kathryn Griffith of Troy. “She (Langley) created such a stressful situation that Mrs. Griffith had a cardiac arrest,” Assistant Prosecutor Joyce Todd charged. She said Langley may have mistaken Griffith’s house for that of a man with whom she was romantically involved.
Frank Sinatra was awarded $450,000 from a Swiss clinic that told the National Enquirer that the singer had received “youth serum” injections of live sheep cells. Attorneys for the Clinic La Prairie of Montreux, Switzerland, walked out of Los Angeles Chief U.S. District Judge Manuel Real’s court claiming the United States had no jurisdiction in the case. Nonetheless, Real awarded Sinatra $350,000 for improper commercial use of his name and $100,000 in punitive damages. Sinatra, 70, sued the clinic and the supermarket tabloid’s over an October 23, 1984, banner story.
Major League Baseball:
The Los Angeles Dodgers bowed to the Atlanta Braves, 3–1. Gerald Perry’s pinch-hit, bad-hop, two-run single in the seventh inning broke a 1–1 tie and gave Atlanta the victory. The loss was fourth straight for Los Angeles. Doyle Alexander (5–5) allowed six hits and one run in seven innings, struck out two and walked four. Gene Garber pitched two innings of one-hit relief for his 23d save.
Dwight Evans scored twice in a six-run eighth inning, including the tie-breaker on an error by a rookie shortstop, Edgar Diaz, as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 9–3, tonight for a sweep of a doubleheader. Roger Clemens scattered six hits for his major league-leading 23d victory, and Evans led off the seventh with a homer as the Red Sox won the opener, 2–1. The victory was the 14th in the last 17 starts for the Red Sox. Boston’s magic number is nine for the Red Sox to win their first American League East championship since 1975. In the second game, the Red Sox bounced back after Paul Molitor hit Calvin Schiraldi’s first pitch in the eighth for a home run to tie at 3–3.
Bob Boone’s single in the bottom of the eighth inning snapped a 5–5 tie as California beat Kansas City, 6–5. Reliever Gary Lucas, 4–0, pitched the ninth for the victory. Bo Jackson, continuing his impressive start as a major league baseball player, tied the game with a two-run homer in the eighth inning.
The Houston Astros drubbed the Cincinnati Reds, 6–1. A combined four-hitter by Bob Knepper and Larry Andersen lifted Houston to victory as the Astros increased their lead to eight games over the Reds in the National League West. Knepper (16–11) allowed three hits, but walked seven in five and one-third innings. Andersen, who got his first save, pitched out of a two-on, one-out threat in the sixth and allowed only one hit and one walk while striking out three over the final three and two-thirds innings.
Billy Beane hit a three-run homer and Mark Portugal pitched 6 ⅔ innings of one-run relief as the Minnesota Twins ended their nine-game road losing streak, beating the Cleveland Indians, 7–3. Portugal, 5–8, allowed three hits and struck out four while walking one as he snapped the Indians’ four-game winning streak.
The Montreal Expos bested the Chicago Cubs, 4–1. Jay Tibbs (7–8) pitched a four-hitter and Andres Galarraga hit a three-run double to spark the Montreal victory. Tibbs struck out four and walked three in his third complete game of the season and first victory since August 4. Rick Sutcliffe (4–14), who has not won since June 2, was the loser.
If he were in show business, his press agent would bill him as Mattingly the Magnificent or Mattingly the Magician. Lou Piniella, the Yankees’ manager, doesn’t care what anyone calls him, as long as they call him when it’s his turn to bat. Don Mattingly put on yet another scintillating performance last night, lashing his 27th home run, his 48th double and a single and driving in three runs as the Yankees blitzed the now hapless Baltimore Orioles, 8–1, for their seventh victory in eight games. Dave Winfield contributed a three-run home run and Bob Shirley pitched four shutout innings — for the second time in four games — in relief of Doug Drabek. Despite the victory, the Yankees fell nine games back of Boston in the American League East because the Red Sox won a doubleheader. This reduced Boston’s division clinching number to nine; any combination of Boston victories and Yankee losses totaling nine, and Boston victories and Toronto losses totaling nine would end the race.
Larry Parrish hit two homers and had four RBI and Geno Petralli knocked in two runs, one of them with a single that broke a 5–5 tie in the seventh inning, as Texas beat Oakland by a score of 10–6. Scott Fletcher started the Rangers’ rally with a leadoff single off Dave Von Ohlen, 0–3, the fourth of six A’s pitchers. After a fielder’s choice, Ruben Sierra singled, and both runners moved up on an error by center fielder Dwayne Murphy. After Pete O’Brien was intentionally walked to load the bases, the switch-hitting Petralli, batting for only .111 right-handed, lined his game-winning single.
The Philadelphia Phillies downed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9–5. Glenn Wilson had four hits and two runs batted in, and a reliever, Kent Tekulve, broke the league career record for appearances as the Phillies won their fifth straight game. The victory prevented the Mets from clinching the Eastern Division title. Tekulve (11–4) pitched two and two-thirds hitless innings in making his 847th appearance to break a tie with Elroy Face of Pittsburgh. Tekulve appeared in 722 games while pitching for the Pirates and 125 since joining the Phillies last season. Tony Pena had a single and a double to extend his hitting streak to 16 games.
The San Francisco Giants defeated the San Diego Padres, 4–1. Mike Krukow pitched into the ninth inning to become the first Giant since 1978 to win 17 games in a season. Krukow, 17–8, gave up nine hits, struck out nine and walked one. He had a shutout until the ninth, when pinch hitters Marvell Wynne and Terry Kennedy hit consecutive doubles. The Padres became the third team in major league history to use six pinch hitters in an inning. Mark Davis retired the last three batters for his fourth save. Harry Spilman hit a two-run, bases-loaded double in the sixth, when the Giants sent nine men to the plate and scored three runs to extend their lead to 4–0.
Mike Morgan hurled a four-hit shutout, the first of his major league career, and Scott Bradley and Harold Reynolds homered as Seattle shut out Chicago, 7–0. Morgan, 11–15, allowed only four singles, walked none and struck out six for his ninth complete game of the season.
The St. Louis Cardinals were batting in the home half of the sixth inning tonight when the Busch Stadium scoreboard flashed the word: “The Phils beat the Pirates. There’ll be no title clinching tonight.” Thunderous cheers went up from the crowd of 30,935 because it meant that the unloved Mets would have to do their dirty work someplace else — like back home in New York. And that’s exactly where they headed tonight after snapping out of their four-game slump and beating the Cardinals, 4–2, to move within one game of clinching the title in the National League’s East, their first in 13 years.
The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Detroit Tigers, 6–4. Jimmy Key won his first game at home in a month and Ernie Whitt hit a homer to pace Toronto attack and snapping Detroit’s five-game winning streak. Key, who hadn’t won at home since August 16 against Texas, allowed six hits, struck out five and walked two over six and one-third innings to improve his record to 13–10. Tom Henke, the third Toronto pitcher, posted his 22nd save.
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Atlanta Braves 3
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Boston Red Sox 2
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Boston Red Sox 9
Kansas City Royals 5, California Angels 6
Houston Astros 6, Cincinnati Reds 1
Minnesota Twins 7, Cleveland Indians 3
Chicago Cubs 1, Montreal Expos 4
Baltimore Orioles 1, New York Yankees 8
Texas Rangers 10, Oakland Athletics 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Philadelphia Phillies 9
San Francisco Giants 4, San Diego Padres 1
Chicago White Sox 0, Seattle Mariners 7
New York Mets 4, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Detroit Tigers 4, Toronto Blue Jays 6
Wall Street turned in a mixed performance yesterday as investors, still stung by the recent sharp drop in stock prices, continued to gravitate toward safer, blue-chip issues. Trading volume, meanwhile, slumped for the second consecutive day, a development that market analysts said was a direct result of the upcoming “triple witching hour,” which occurs this Friday, when stock index futures, stock index options and individual stock options expire simultaneously. Trading has been highly volatile on past witching hour Fridays. The result was a 10.96-point gain yesterday in the blue-chip Dow average, to 1,778.54, at a time when other broader market indexes were in retreat.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1778.54 (+10.96)
Born:
Gordon Beckham, MLB second baseman, third baseman, and shortstop (Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Angels, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Detroit Tigers), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ian Harding, American actor (“Pretty Little Liars”), in Heidelberg, West Germany.
Kyla Pratt, American actress and musician (“The Proud Family”), in Los Angeles, California.
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