President Reagan expressed hope today that the next round of the Geneva arms talks would offer “a real chance” to reduce the level of nuclear arms. He said the Americans would present “new details” in the negotiations. At the same time Mr. Reagan said the restricted status of Nicholas S. Daniloff, Moscow correspondent of U.S. News & World Report accused of espionage, could undermine progress. The Geneva talks are to resume Thursday, covering long-range arms, medium-range weapons and space and defensive systems. Officials said progress could be made on long-range weapons in view of a new negotiating position approved by President Reagan. The proposal was prepared by an interdepartmental group last month. After details of the plan were reported in The New York Times, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger voiced opposition to elements of the proposal, which would raise the number of warheads and air-launched cruise missiles that would be allowed. But today officials said that the proposal had remained intact and that Max M. Kampelman, the arms negotiator, had been authorized to present it.
A new long-range Soviet missile exploded last month during its second test flight, the New York Times reported. Quoting Reagan Administration specialists, the newspaper said that the first test of the new version of the SS-18 also ended in failure last April when the missile exploded soon after leaving its silo. The White House had no comment on the report. The newspaper also reported that another Soviet missile, the 10-warhead SS-24, is having problems in the development stage. Earlier this month, another Soviet missile, a submarine-launched SS-N-8, misfired during a test on the Kamchatka Peninsula and reportedly landed near the Sino-Soviet border, more than 1,500 miles off course.
The United States said today that it had given Moscow a list of 25 members of the Soviet Mission to the United Nations who must leave by October 1. This is the largest number of Soviet diplomats ever expelled by the United States at one time. The White House and the State Department denied that the action was in retaliation for the restricted status in Moscow of an American journalist, Nicholas S. Daniloff, who is awaiting a possible trial on espionage charges. The American step, officials said, is aimed at making make sure that the Soviet Union complies with an order of six months ago to reduce the size of its United Nations missions. But a White House official said the decision to expel the 25 mission members and to do it in a publicized way was related to a desire to appear tough and to show that the United States was ready to put into effect retaliatory measures until Mr. Daniloff is given safe passage back home.
A hardening bipartisan sentiment appears to be emerging in Congress against any move toward a summit meeting with the Soviet Union until an American journalist under indictment on espionage charges there is allowed to return home. The sentiment in Congress could make it more difficult for the Administration, already in a difficult spot, to work its way out of the situation. Several senators and representatives said today that the Administration should not bow, for the sake of a summit meeting, to Soviet demands and make a trade for the journalist in any way that implies that he is a spy. Several also said the only topic of discussion when Secretary of State George P. Shultz meets with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, on Friday and Saturday should be the freeing of Nicholas S. Daniloff, the reporter for U.S. News & World Report who was released from jail Friday but still faces trial in Moscow.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who has been on vacation on the Black Sea, visited a farming region in southern Russia today and called on people to speak their minds and stop covering up failings. Looking tanned and fit, he was speaking with farmers in the Krasnodar region. A 15-minute report on the trip appeared on television.
Eighty-seven Soviet Jews were permitted to leave for the West last month, the highest figure registered this year, a tally by the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration showed in Geneva. The tally was substantially above the 33 departures in July, the smallest number since the all-time low of 29 in August, 1985. Emigre sources said the trend appears to be continuing upward, with more than 60 Jews having left the Soviet Union so far this month. The highest monthly total last year was 174. Soviet Jewish emigration hit a peak of 51,330 in 1979.
Italy will participate in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative and will work to see that the research on space defense does not worsen U.S.-Soviet relations, Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti said in a message to Parliament. Andreotti said a memorandum establishing Italian participation in the project, popularly known as “Star Wars,” will be signed Friday in Washington. Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini said that “the technical level of our industry is in fact sufficiently high to assure a special and original contribution.”
A bomb killed five Parisians and wounded 50 in front of a crowded department store on the Left Bank. The police said the bomb had been hurled from a passing car in the most deadly of five terrorist attacks to shake Paris in 10 days. The bombing occurred despite a general mobilization of security forces and an intensive police hunt for those responsible for the terrorism. The bombing deepened an already acute sense of insecurity in the French capital, where many people are already curbing their activities and avoiding crowded places. It occurred despite a general mobilization of security forces and an intensive police hunt for those responsible for the terror campaign, which is believed to be aimed at freeing Arab guerrillas jailed in France. A journalist who witnessed the attack today said: “It was a horrible sight. There were a lot of women and children. There was blood all over.”
The bombing stunned Parisians more than the previous four attacks and generated panic in a city celebrated for its civilized openness. A taxi driver of Arab origin, dazed by the carnage on the Rue de Rennes, exclaimed, “My God, it looked like Beirut. Beirut on the Seine.” One of the news broadcasts tonight opened with an anchorwoman saying, “It was the kind of night when we would prefer not to have had television news.” Then came the footage of the carnage from the bombing on the Rue de Rennes — blood splattered on the normally impeccable Parisian streets; bodies strewn along the sidewalk; abandoned coats and other clothing; the screams and whimpering of children mixed with wailing police sirens; shattered glass, glistening in light rain in the twilight. “It looked like the aftermath of an air raid,” the announcer said.
The Social Democrats, part of a centrist grouping that expects to hold the balance of power in British politics after the next election, proposed a seemingly radical tax reform program today in an effort to win back ground lost to the Labor Party in recent months. Winding up their annual conference in this Yorkshire resort, they also staged a display of unity and support for their leader, David Owen, whose insistence on Britain’s need to maintain itself as a nuclear power for the foreseeable future seemed earlier this year to be worsening the strains between the Social Democrats and their Liberal Party partners in what is billed as the Alliance. Together the two parties take about one-third of the vote in a three-way split with Labor and the governing Conservatives that has become the pattern of local elections and parliamentary by-elections. But Labor has been gaining in opinion polls at the Alliance’s expense as a result of the ability of its youthful leader, Neil Kinnock, to project himself as a moderate who battles ideological zealots in his own ranks and promises to concentrate on lowering Britain’s unemployment rate. This is now at 13.3 percent and is still rising.
Two Lebanese men whom French authorities are seeking for questioning in the Paris bombings convened a news conference here today to deny that they were involved in the attacks. France has offered a $150,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the men, who are brothers of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a suspected Lebanese terrorist currently serving a four-year prison term on weapons charges. The group believed responsible for the wave of Paris bombings has demanded the release of Mr. Abdallah and two other terrorist suspects.
Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of the port of Tyre in southern Lebanon today in support of the United Nations peacekeeping troops in the area. The march, led by officials of the mainstream Shiite movement Amal, came after an overnight attack by unidentified gunmen on a French peacekeeping battalion in the village of Dibaal east of Tyre. The attackers fired several rocket-propelled grenades at the French post, but no one was hurt. It was the latest in a series of assaults against the 1,400 French soldiers who serve with the nine-nation force. Four French soldiers, as well as an officer of the Irish battalion, have been killed in the last two weeks.
Missiles fired by a suspected Iranian gunboat struck a Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, igniting a blaze that was still raging 12 hours after the attack, the Kuwaiti News Agency reported. No crew members were injured in the attack, the agency said. Shipping executives said that radio communications from the tanker and other ships identified the gunboat as an Iranian naval vessel. Kuwaiti officials would not confirm the report, and there was no confirmation of the attack from Iranian news agencies.
The Soviet news agency Tass said that the slaying of a Soviet military attaché in Pakistan shows Pakistan’s disregard for the protection of foreign officials and will harm relations already strained by Pakistan’s support for guerrillas fighting Soviet forces in neighboring Afghanistan. The attache, Colonel Fyodor I. Gorenkov, was shot in his car in Islamabad by a Pakistani man identified by officials as Zafar Ahmed. They said Ahmed had been trying to emigrate to the Soviet Union and had a history of mental illness.
Vietnam turned over to the United States what was believed to be the remains of an American pilot killed in the Vietnam War. American officials in Bangkok, Thailand, said the remains will be flown from Hanoi to Honolulu for analysis by the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory. Major Virginia Pribyla, spokeswoman for the U.S. Pacific Command, said she could give no information about the remains except that the Vietnamese had provided a name based on their preliminary analysis. A Pentagon statement said the “U.S. hopes this represents just one of many continued steps to resolve this longstanding humanitarian issue.” Vietnam has pledged to resolve the MIA issue by the end of 1987.
A week ago, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone abruptly dismissed his Education Minister, a man of strong right-wing views who seemed to go out of his way in public statements to offend Koreans, Chinese and other Asians. Mr. Nakasone’s intention was to end a dispute quickly that threatened to harm Japan’s diplomatic relations and his own political standing. Thus far, things have not worked out as he had hoped. The controversy over the ousted minister, Masayuki Fujio, not only continues but also seems likely to cast long shadows over future domestic debate and foreign perceptions of Japan.
President Reagan greets President of the Republic of the Philippines, Corazon C. Aquino to the White House. President Reagan held his first face-to-face meeting with President Corazon C. Aquino of the Philippines today and offered broad American support for her economic, political and military policies. But although praising Mrs. Aquino’s efforts at reconciliation among warring elements in the Philippines. Mr. Reagan also said that “well-armed Communist guerrillas” remained a threat to democracy there. Mrs. Aquino asked for American “understanding” of her approach in dealing with the insurgency, which she said was in the context of a political solution backed by a military option. A senior Administration official said later that Mr. Reagan had made it clear that the Administration supported “fully and completely” her handling of the Communist insurgency, which he said had been a matter of “considerable interest.” The two leaders had a private meeting and a working lunch.
Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte and other top Government officials assert that extreme demands by leftist rebels scuttled peace talks planned for this week. The officials, speaking here Tuesday night, contended that guerrilla representatives had rejected a Government offer of personal-security escorts made up of senior Roman Catholic Church officials, foreign diplomats and the International Red Cross. Instead, the officials said, the rebels demanded the withdrawal of all army troops from a strategically important 400-square-mile area surrounding the planned site of the talks, the isolated northeastern village of Sesori.
The Ecuadorean Government called out troops today to keep order and guard public services as labor unions representing 700,000 workers went on strike for a higher minimum wage. The job action, declared illegal by the Government on Tuesday, closed factories in the capital, but shops and banks remained open and public transportation continued to operate, although with reduced services.
Inmates in Brazil exchanged 14 hostages they had held for a day and a half for three lawyers and three churchmen and fled their central Brazilian prison today. Later, they freed their six new hostages and eluded pursuing policemen. The prisoners agreed after long negotiations with officials to exchange the 14 hostages for the lawyers and churchmen, who included the Rev. Geraldo Avila, the auxiliary archbishop of Brasilia. They then fled the prison here in three getaway cars.
The United Nations has reached a tentative agreement with Sudanese rebels that could allow resumption of food aid flights into the beseiged city of Wau in the southern Sudan by the end of this week, United Nations officials said today. Under the agreement, a chartered Hercules 130 transport will be able to fly grain and other supplies into the city, which has been cut off from any relief efforts since August.
The House of Representatives today refused to cut off covert aid to rebels fighting the Soviet-backed Angolan Government. The vote was 229 to 186. A coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats rejected a proposal by the Intelligence Committee that barred aid to the rebels unless it was openly approved by the Congress. Representative Lee H. Hamilton, the Indiana Democrat who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, argued that major foreign policy decisions such as those involving aid to combatants in a war, ought to be made only after full public debate. He also said the rebels’ ties to South Africa would harm this country’s reputation in the region.
A South African mining company said today that 177 people, most of them black miners, died Tuesday when a fire sent palls of toxic gas through underground shafts. It was the country’s worst gold-mining disaster on record. On Tuesday the owners said 44 people died and 154 were still missing. By late afternoon today, 235 people were reported injured and 5 were missing more than 30 hours after the fire broke out. Cyril Ramaphosa, chief of a black labor union, charged that welders whose equipment apparently started the blaze were not equipped with fire extinguishers.
William H. Rehnquist was confirmed by the Senate to be the 16th Chief Justice of the United States. The vote was 65 to 33. The Senate then voted unanimously (98–0) to confirm Antonin Scalia to succeed Mr. Rehnquist as an Associate Justice. Senator Jake Garn, the Utah Republican who is recovering from surgery, was absent, as was Senator Barry Goldwater, Republican of Arizona. Forty-nine Republicans and 16 Democrats voted for Justice Rehnquist, with 31 Democrats and 2 Republicans voting against him. Justice Rehnquist and Judge Scalia are to be sworn in next week, in time for the Court’s next session, which begins October 6. Justice Rehnquist succeeds Warren E. Burger, who announced in June that he wanted to retire after 17 years as Chief Justice in order to spend full time planning the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution. That event takes place one year from today.
President Reagan receives the second report of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution.
The most sweeping reorganization of the military command structure in a generation passed Congress today and went to President Reagan, who the White House said was likely to sign it. The bill, which passed the House today and the Senate on Tuesday, won praise from legislators of both political parties. It strengthens the role of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, in setting policies, drafting military strategies and devising the Pentagon’s budgets. It also gives important new powers to the commanders who would lead troops into combat.
The General Accounting Office said it is inevitable that the financially strapped Farm Credit System, the nation’s largest farm lender, will need a federal bailout and that the government should plan for that assistance in advance. The system’s financial surplus could be exhausted before the end of 1987, the GAO said in a report released by the House Agriculture Committee, which planned a hearing today. The farmer-owned system lost $2.7 billion last year and expects to lose $1.7 billion this year.
Physicians and Federal officials said yesterday that they expected an important announcement, probably on Friday, on the effectiveness of an experimental drug against AIDS. Their comments came amid rumors that azidothymidine, an antiviral agent also known as AZT, had shown the first significant progress against AIDS in continuing scientific trials, whose results have not been released. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a deadly crippling of the body’s disease-fighting capacity, has been diagnosed in about 25,000 Americans, more than half of whom have died. While physicians have improved their ability to treat some infections and cancers that strike AIDS patients, they have been unable to reverse the underlying damage to the immune system or to rid patients of the virus believed to cause it. Several drugs are in clinical trials, including some that, like AZT, are designed to fight the virus and others that are intended to strengthen the body’s immune system.
Nancy Reagan visited a school and treatment center for young drug abusers in Shrub Oak, New York, and declared that Americans had begun to react forcefully against drug use. Mrs. Reagan spoke with a group of young former addicts from New York City and their parents.
Texas’s universities have passed Harvard to become the nation’s educational enterprise with the biggest endowment, according to an annual survey. But the University of Texas System’s 14 campuses have a total enrollment of 160,000 students, 10 times that of Harvard. Also, much of the Texas endowment must only pay off construction debts.
Joseph P. Kennedy 2d’s wide margin of victory in a Massachusetts Congressional primary makes him the strong favorite to win the seat once held by his uncle John F. Kennedy. He had 52.4 percent of the vote in the 11-candidate race.
A violent one-day casino strike ended in Atlantic City after union members won raises, but the casinos accused the police of allowing “mob rule” by marauding pickets. Some strikers blocked traffic, pelted casino patrons and buses with eggs, tossed rocks at cars and smashed windows in casino hotels. Some pickets attributed the damage to teen-agers.
Governor James R. Thompson signed a measure prohibiting non-government guerrilla and paramilitary training in Illinois, which, sponsors of the legislation said, was aimed at the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan. Nation, neo-Nazis and other radical groups that in the past have conducted training in the state. The new law makes it a felony, punishable by one to three years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000, to teach explosives and firearm techniques for the purpose of causing civil disorder.
A slain San Antonio police officer who officials say may have conducted a three-year vigilante campaign was apparently responsible for a 1982 slaying, a special panel of city investigators concluded. The officer, Stephen R. Smith, who was fatally shot by his partner last month, was also identified by the panel as a suspect in two ambush killings. Investigators said they believe Officer Smith was the gunman in the killing of a suspected auto thief on December 28, 1982. In addition to the city police department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Texas Attorney General and a special county prosecutor are conducting independent investigations of Officer Smith’s activities.
Federal District Judge Harry E. Claiborne, defending himself against impeachment, cannot argue that Federal investigators sought to frame him on bribery charges, a Senate panel said today. The procedural ruling ended the possibility that the jailed Nevadan’s lawyers would seek to subpoena other Federal judges and Justice Department officials in an attempt to prove his contention that there was a Government conspiracy to remove him from the bench. Hearings on that countercharge have repeatedly been denied in trial and pretrial proceedings that led to Judge Claiborne’s conviction of tax evasion in 1984 and jail term. But the judge’s lawyer, Oscar Goodmane, petitioned the special 12-member Senate committee hearing the impeachment charges to consider his client’s allegation that Federal investigators conspired to convict him of bribery charges by, among other things, burglarizing his Las Vegas home and photographing his financial files. Meanwhile, Claiborne was unaware of “a horrible mistake” on his income tax return that landed him in prison for income tax evasion, an accountant told a Senate impeachment panel. Jerry Watson, whose firm prepared Claiborne’s 1980 tax return, told the panel that the judge did not know that $88,500 in client fees was used to offset a claimed loss from closing his law practice instead of being reported as income.
The Judicial Conference of the United States may recommend to Congress that Federal District Judge Alcee Hastings of Miami be impeached, a court of appeals here decided today. Judge Hastings had filed an emergency request with the court, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, because he wants to stop the the Judicial Conference from certifying to Congress a report by the 11th Circuit Judicial Council. That council said Judge Hastings had been guilty of conspiracy to accept a bribe and said he had fabricated his testimony at his trial in 1983, in which he was acquitted of conspiracy.
A growing criminal network of Nigerian nationals, which controls some of the U.S. drug market and reaps millions of dollars from credit card and student loan frauds, has become a major law enforcement problem, witnesses told a Senate investigations subcommittee. Postal Inspector Martin Biegelman estimated that Mastercard and Visa lost about $2 million to credit card fraud committed by Nigerians in 1985. A subcommittee investigator said that much of the fraud takes place on college campuses, where Nigerians in the United States on student visas are recruited to file millions of dollars worth of false student-loan claims.
Archeologists in Titusville, Florida, discovered two 7,000- to 8,000-year-old human skulls containing brain tissue and said they appear to be the best-preserved specimens yet taken from a burial pond there. One of the skulls was believed to be that of a woman in her 40s. Nine other skulls with brains preserved under the moist, air-tight muck have been found at the site in the last two years.
Groups in 13 states opposed to the selection process for the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste dump have joined forces as the National Nuclear Waste Task Force, an organizer said today. The group will seek to cut Federal funds for all Department of Energy nuclear waste programs, said Delbert Devin of Amarillo, the chairman of the Texas Nuclear Waste Task force. “The task force hopes to inspire the members of Congress from all states to work together in support of cutbacks and thus avoid a showdown between states,” Mr. Devin said.
A federal jury in Chicago awarded $4.3 million in damages to 13 police officers who sued the city for reverse discrimination, charging that race and politics prompted their transfers by a black appointee of Mayor Harold Washington to less prestigious jobs. Each of the plaintiffs was awarded $55,000 in actual damages and $275,000 in punitive damages. The lawsuit had requested $250,000 in damages for each man. They were among 28 white males transferred out of the elite Office of Municipal Investigations in 1984.
Judges in California are subject to discipline if they belong to private clubs that discriminate on the basis of sex, race or religion, according to a new provision of the state’s judicial code. The rule was approved by the California Judges Association on Monday. The 292-to-218 vote is believed to make California the first state to ban discriminatory club membership for judges, said Judge Ina Gyemant of San Francisco Municipal Court, a member of the association’s executive board. The new rule says it is “inappropriate for a judge to hold membership in any organization that practices invidious discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin.”
On the 17th attempt, a $37.3 million weather satellite roared into orbit today atop a rebuilt 25-year-old rocket. It was the second successful launching in two weeks for the troubled American space program. The Atlas-E booster lifted off the Vandenberg Air Force Base launching pad at 8:52 AM carrying a rescue and weather satellite. Its polar orbit 518 miles above the Earth was confirmed at 10:07 AM. Spectators applauded as the rocket disappeared quickly into the clouds above the base 140 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Marina Stepanova of USSR sets the women’s 400 m hurdle record in 52.94 seconds.
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Fernando Valenzuela failed in his bid to become a 20-game winner for the first time in his carcer and become the first National League pitcher to reach that plateau this season when the Los Angeles Dodgers dropped a 4–1 decision to the Atlanta Braves. Bruce Benedict highlighted a three-run seventh inning with a two-run single to lead Atlanta over Valenzuela, who fell to 19–10. Reliever Jeff Dedmon, 6–6, who had allowed the Dodgers to tie the score in the top of the seventh, when he hit pinch-hitter Alex Trevino with the bases loaded, got credit for the victory.
Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd equaled a career high with his 15th victory, and Don Baylor and Dwight Evans hit consecutive homers, leading Boston over Milwaukee, 4–1. Boyd, who has lost nine games, allowed eight hits, struck out six and walked one as he improved his record to 4–3 since he missed 28 days because of two suspensions by the club in July. Don Baylor hit his 30th homer of the year. He is the first player to hit 30 homers and total 30 hit by pitched balls. It won’t be matched until 2015, by Anthony Rizzo.
Brian Downing hit a two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the 10th to boost California to a 3–1 victory over the Royals, which reduced its magic number for winning the AL West championship to nine.
The Cincinnati Reds took another beating from the Western Division-leading Houston Astros Wednesday night, 6–1. Jose Cruz hit two home runs, one for two runs and another for three more in a four-run eighth that began after two were out. So why is it that the Reds, who have played so well at times, have played so poorly against the Astros? “We don’t hit ’em,” said Pete Rose, “and we don’t get ’em out.” And that about sums it up. The Reds’ loss to the Astros was their 13th in 17 meetings. It dropped the Reds nine games behind Houston. So significant was this loss to the Astros, that no one even uttered the phrase that has become a Reds’ catch-phrase in recent weeks: “Anything can happen.” The dream is over. Astros’ starter Danny Darwin, 3–1, awakened the Reds, tossing a complete-game five-hitter.
The Indians topped the Twins, 5–2. Pat Tabler’s RBI single snapped a 2–2 tie and started a three-run rally in the sixth inning to give rookie Greg Swindell and the Indians the victory.
Sid Bream broke a tie with a two-run homer in the sixth inning as Pittsburgh beat Montreal, 4–1, for a split of their doubleheader. A two-run double by Andres Galarraga keyed a five-run seventh inning as the Montreal overcame a four-run deficit to win the opener 6–5.
The Yankees, who have gone longer than any other baseball team in New York without winning a division title, crept closer to elimination from this season’s race in their division last night, dropping an 8–3 decision to a flock of Rochester Red Wings who were disguised as Baltimore Orioles. Eric Bell, a rookie left-hander who joined the Orioles from Rochester only two days earlier, stymied the Yankees on six hits in six and two-thirds innings in his first major league start, and two players who had been his teammates in the International League this season, drove in half the Oriole runs. The defeat dropped the Yankees 10 games behind the Boston Red Sox with only 16 to play. Any combination of Red Sox victories and Yankee losses totaling 7 will eliminate the Yankees from division contention for the fifth consecutive season.
Surrounded by a roaring crowd of 47,823 in Shea Stadium and by many “amazing” memories of the past, the New York Mets ended their six-month pursuit of a title in high style last night when Dwight Gooden pitched them to a 4–2 victory over the Chicago Cubs and to the championship of the National League East. It was their first division title in 13 years, the third in their 25-year history, and they won it after holding first place every day since April 23. But they also won it after tantalizing people by losing four straight games just when the prize was within reach. Gooden, who had failed to clinch the title last Friday night in Philadelphia, clinched it this time by pitching his 15th victory of the season. He got dramatic help from Dave Magadan, a first baseman starting his first game in the big leagues as the understudy for Keith Hernandez, who was suffering from a heavy cold. Magadan responded by hitting three consecutive singles and knocking in two runs. Gooden tosses a 6-hitter. The Mets will win 108 games this season, most in the National League since the 1975 Reds.
Pete Incaviglia hit two home runs and Edwin Correa allowed six hits over 8 ⅔ innings to lead Texas over Oakland, 4–0. The loss was the A’s sixth straight. Correa, 10–13, walked three and struck out 10. Mitch Williams got the last out for his eighth save.
The Cardinals downed the Phillies, 8–5. Bob Forsch and rookie Todd Worrell combined on a six-hitter and Forsch drove in the game-winning run with a sacrifice fly as St. Louis ended the Phillies’ five-game winning streak. Bob Forsch and rookie Todd Worrell combined on a six-hitter and Forsch drove in the game-winning run with a sacrifice fly as St. Louis ended the Phillies’ five-game winning streak.
Benito Santiago hit his first major league home run with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the San Diego Padres a 5–4 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Santiago’s solo shot came off reliever Mark Davis, 4–6. Lance McCullers, 9–8, the fourth San Diego pitcher, went two innings to pick up the victory. Left-hander Ed Vosberg, making his first major league start, pitched five innings, allowing just three hits, walking three and striking out four.
Floyd Bannister and Bob Thigpen combined on a four-hit shutout to lead the Chicago White Sox over the Seattle Mariners, 3–0. Mark Langston, 12–12, struck out 14 White Sox.
The Tigers beat the Blue Jays, 8–6. Jack Morris allowed eight hits and pinch hitter Larry Herndon hit a three-run homer during a four-run Detroit seventh inning against Toronto. With the game tied 3–3 in the seventh, rookie Dwight Lowry hit a one-out single, his second hit of the game off Toronto’s Jim Clancy, 14–11. After Lou Whitaker singled, Alan Trammell singled to score Lowry. Herndon followed with his homer.
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Atlanta Braves 4
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Boston Red Sox 4
Kansas City Royals 1, California Angels 3
Houston Astros 6, Cincinnati Reds 1
Minnesota Twins 2, Cleveland Indians 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Montreal Expos 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Montreal Expos 1
Baltimore Orioles 8, New York Yankees 3
Chicago Cubs 2, New York Mets 4
Texas Rangers 4, Oakland Athletics 0
St. Louis Cardinals 8, Philadelphia Phillies 5
San Francisco Giants 4, San Diego Padres 5
Chicago White Sox 3, Seattle Mariners 0
Detroit Tigers 8, Toronto Blue Jays 6
Caution prevailed on Wall Street again yesterday, as stock prices were mixed for the third straight session. But there was a slight change over the previous two days, as investors bought secondary issues, while selling blue chips. On Monday and Tuesday, the opposite happened, causing the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average to move up slightly, while the bulk of the market retreated. Yesterday, it was the Dow that fell, by 9.14 points, to 1,769.40. Despite the drop, market experts say there is no clear trend emerging on Wall Street, where stock prices were battered last week by a combination of internal market factors and concern about interest rates.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1769.4 (-9.14)
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Pat Phoenix [Patricia Manfield], 62, British actress (“Coronation Street”, 1960-1973 and 1976-1984; “L-Shaped Room”), of lung cancer.
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