Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the Soviet Foreign Minister said tonight that they had made progress in laying the groundwork for a summit meeting. But they also agreed that the case of an American journalist charged with espionage in Moscow was an obstacle to setting a date for a meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. Mr. Shultz, in a news conference at the State Department, said two days of talks with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, had produced “considerable potential for progress.” But he said that until the journalist, Nicholas S. Daniloff, was freed, there was no point in scheduling a summit meeting. On the issues that could form the basis for a meeting between Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev, he said, the talks were “serious, constructive and positive.” He also said he and Mr. Shevardnadze were “in touch” with their respective delegations in Stockholm “wanting to see a successful conclusion” of East-West negotiations on avoiding accidental war in Europe. Negotiators continued to inch toward an agreement there today. But despite “serious and direct” discussions with Mr. Shevardnadze about freeing Mr. Daniloff, Mr. Shultz said, “I unfortunately have to report we were not able to resolve that issue.”
Mr. Shevardnadze held a news conference at the Soviet Embassy at about the same time as Mr. Shultz was speaking. The Soviet official also seemed pleased at the progress, saying that “this work, I would say, creates a foundation for holding a summit meeting, and in this we are moving forward.” Mr. Shevardnadze said that a “malicious hand” was using the Daniloff affair to create obstacles to a second summit meeting. Asked to explain, he said, “I have in mind those who have persuaded you that Daniloff was just an innocent reporter.” Mr. Shevardnadze said there was evidence that Mr. Daniloff, a correspondent for the magazine U.S. News & World Report, had been engaged in “impermissible activities.”
The United States has sought a meeting between Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev in this country sometime between mid-November and mid-December. The Soviet Union has insisted that until there is guaranteed progress toward arms-control accords, it makes no sense to hold such a meeting.
The man who has been negotiating for the Russians in Washington in the last two days is a novice to foreign affairs and, although a Politburo member, is far from being a top policy maker. But the official, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who succeeded Andrei A. Gromyko as Foreign Minister in the summer of 1985, has also brought a looser style, an easy smile and a bantering mood to a tense situation between the two superpowers. Officials and journalists who watched Mr. Gromyko during some of his 28 years as Foreign Minister credit him with being a fine actor, able to shift from thundering anger to sarcastic ridicule to jovial warmth. But given the trials in Soviet-American relations, it is hard to imagine Mr. Gromyko’s allowing even the slightest smile to crack his veneer of austerity on a visit to Washington. Mr. Shevardnadze, 58 years old, has seemed less calculated, more informal and more relaxed. He grinned at reporters waiting outside the State Department on Friday as he emerged after a day of meetings with Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
The United States has offered to the Soviet Union a new proposal on medium-range arms that would limit each side’s weapons to 200 missile warheads, according to Administration and diplomatic sources. The proposal, which officials disclosed today, was put forward Thursday at the Geneva arms talks. Administration officials have previously said the United States was prepared to agree to a Soviet suggestion that each side deploy only token medium-range missile forces in Europe. But officials disclosed today that the Administration had incorporated the Soviet suggestion into a new comprehensive approach to limiting medium-range missiles in Europe and Asia. The American proposal also marks a modest shift in its position on how to limit Soviet missiles in Asia, which has been one of the most contentious issues.
Warsaw Pact and NATO negotiators continued to inch toward agreement today on a historic East-West security pact designed to reduce the risk of war in Europe. Both sides insisted that a final agreement could be reached Sunday, or Monday at the latest. But the two military alliances remained divided on a few important issues, delegates said. The talks, which have been under way here between 35 nations for almost three years, overran their official deadline today. But the negotiators stopped the big electric clock in their meeting hall at midnight Friday and continued discussions into the weekend.
A retired West German Army officer was killed this week by stray bullets fired by Czechoslovak border guards at two Poles trying to flee into West Germany, the Foreign Ministry said today. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Jurgen Chrobog, said the Czechoslovak Government had told Bonn that Johann Dick, 59 years old, a retired lieutenant colonel, was fatally wounded near Tirschenreut, about 70 miles northeast of Nuremberg. He said the Foreign Ministry had summoned the Czechoslovak charge d’affaires to protest the “reckless use of weapons on the border and an encroachment of German territory in violation of international law.”
France is caught up in a vendetta over the Middle East, according to the prevailing theory about the rash of bombings in Paris. According to this theory, a clan of Lebanese Christians is seeking to free their chieftain, a self-styled Marxist, named Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. The reputed terrorist leader, whose release from jail has been demanded by a group claiming responsibility for the wave of bombings in Paris that have killed eight and injured more than 160, was moved from one prison to another, a French Justice Ministry official said. The official did not specify the reason for the move. The official said Abdallah was moved from the modern prison at Fleury-Merogis, 20 miles south of Paris, to La Sante, an aging institution near the Montparnasse district of the capital. Abdallah, 35, is serving a four-year prison term for using false passports and possessing weapons. He has been implicated in the 1982 killings of an American military attaché and an Israeli diplomat.
East Germany’s Protestant Church leadership has accused the Communist government of failing to inform the population fully about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster last spring in the Soviet Union and said people felt abandoned by the authorities. The accusation was made in a report to be discussed at a meeting of the national synod in Erfurt. The report challenges the East German regime’s confidence in nuclear energy and calls for a rethinking of its dangers.
Iceland’s Foreign Minister, Matthias Matthiesen, announced an agreement with the United States today that promises to end a bitter two-year dispute over shipping to the United States Navy base at Keflavik, on the southwestern tip of the island. The agreement puts Icelandic and American companies on an equal footing in bidding for contracts on shipping to the Keflavik base, he said. Mr. Matthiesen said the agreement, if ratified by the Senate, would supersede a 1904 United States statute giving American companies priority on shipping to overseas bases.
French peacekeeping troops, under persistent attack in recent weeks, evacuated six positions in southern Lebanon, U.N. sources said. The evacuation near Tyre in southern Lebanon came a day after five French soldiers were wounded, two seriously, when their bunker was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. The French troops, assigned to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, were replaced at two of the positions by Nepalese soldiers of the peacekeeping force.
The Sri Lankan Government imposed an indefinite curfew on the east coast town of Batticaloa today. A Government statement said the curfew was imposed after Tamil separatist guerrillas exploded bombs in the town and forced shops to close. The country’s main Tamil party, the Tamil United Liberation Front, said Government commandos had “run amok” on Thursday after a car-bomb explosion, killing 35 civilians. The Government said the bomb was planted by guerrillas and killed four civilians. It said nine other civilians were then killed in crossfire in a shootout between security forces and rebels.
Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino returned today to the city where she and her husband, Benigno S. Aquino Jr., lived in exile before his assassination. She received an honorary degree from Boston University and spoke at Harvard University. As she had in Washington and New York, Mrs. Aquino continued to draw rapturous praise from politicians, business officials and private citizens, who vied to bestow honors on her. Senator John Kerry, greeting Mrs. Aquino at Boston University this morning, sought to explain the phenomenon that her arrival in the United States had created. In her speech to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday, Senator Kerry said that “she moved even the most hardened politicians to tears,” not only by her eloquence and personality “but mostly because of the simple truth of her ideas.’
A Roman Catholic priest from Los Angeles was detained by the military in El Salvador but was later released, U.S. officials said. Father Michael Kennedy, 38, an assistant pastor of Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, and three Salvadorans were detained by troops in Usulutan province “for being there without permission.” A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador said Kennedy was picked up in Berlin, 45 miles southeast of San Salvador, in a zone where fighting was taking place, and taken out for his own safety.
A new round of world trade talks to help stimulate the economy and halt the drift to protectionism was agreed on at a global trade conference in Uruguay. The eighth round of talks with emphasis on freer trade and more competitive farm produce will begin by October 31, a conference declaration said. They are to be held in Geneva in sessions scheduled over a period of four years.
A new Brazilian-built plane bought by Atlantic Southeast Airlines of Atlanta, a U.S. commuter airline, slammed into a cliff on its delivery flight, killing all five people aboard, including three Americans, the plane’s manufacturer said. A spokesman for Embraer Co., maker of the 30-seat twin-prop airplane, said the plane took off from the company’s airfield at Sao Jose dos Campos, about 265 miles west of Rio de Janeiro, and crashed moments later. The Americans killed were identified as pilot Max Millican, co-pilot Larry McElwany and engineer Jay Murray, all employees of Atlantic Southeast Airlines.
With food supplies cut off for more than a month, hundreds of thousands of people are starving in the southern Sudan, and the death toll could reach two million, Western relief workers say. They add that a 30-year-old struggle between the country’s dominant Arab Moslem north and the black African south has turned into a war in which hunger itself has become a weapon. In the lush forests and fertile plains of the south, the Christian and animist rebels known as the Sudan People’s Liberation Army say they control 90 percent of the territory, an estimate supported by Western relief workers and diplomats. This has left Government garrisons holed up in a handful of cities packed with famished refugees, described by a diplomat as “Government islands in a sea of S.P.L.A.” The long-running struggle threatens the Government of Prime Minister Sadeq el-Mahdi — the first elected here in 18 years — and is symbolized by its failure to revoke the harsh Islamic law imposed by the ousted dictator, Gaafar al-Nimeiry.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, an opposition politician in Liberia who was cleared of charges of complicity in a coup attempt last year, said she fled to the United States this month after the chairman of the ruling party threatened her life. In her first public statement since she arrived in New York on September 1, Mrs. Johnson-Sirleaf said last week that she decided to leave the West African country after being denied an exit visa and after her home was ransacked. She said the chairman of the ruling National Democratic Party of Liberia, Keikura B. Kpoto, who is also a senator in the national legislature, told her on August 16 that “something might happen to you, and no one would be responsible.” She said he also warned her not to take part in protests against the Government’s arrest of three other opposition leaders.
The U.N. General Assembly approved by a vote of 126 to 0 an appeal to the Security Council for comprehensive mandatory sanctions against South Africa. The United States and 23 other countries, mostly Western, abstained. The assembly acted after four days of debate at a special session called to consider South Africa’s failure to implement a 1978 Security Council resolution setting terms for the independence of Namibia (South-West Africa.) The new resolution contained implied criticism of the Reagan Administration by stating that the assembly “strongly rejects the policies of ‘constructive engagement’ and ‘linkage’ which have served to encourage the racist regime of South Africa to continue its illegal occupation of Namibia.”
The exiled leader of the main black political movement in South Africa, the African National Congress, held separate talks here today with an American official, Chester A. Crocker, and with the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe. The talks between the African National Congress leader, Oliver Tambo, and Mr. Crocker were the highest to be held between the outlawed group and the United States. The State Department announced this week that Secretary of State George P. Shultz had tentatively decided to visit southern Africa next month.
Residents of Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg, said today that black municipal policemen led by two whites shot five blacks to death during a funeral vigil before dawn, spraying a house and a tent for mourners with gunfire. The authorities, in their version of the incident, said one person died, not five, did not mention any vigil and said the municipal police had opened fire after being attacked with stones. The official account varied so much from what residents told reporters that Nthato Motlana, a prominent Soweto civic leader, accused the Bureau for Information, the sole source of authorized news, of lying.
Democrats issued a list of principles that includes strikingly tough criticism of the Soviet Union and strongly asserts the importance Democrats accord family life. The 71-page statement that seeks to craft a new image for the party was produced by Democratic Policy Commission under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee. It criticizes aspects of President Reagan’s military buildup as “a wild spending spree with no strategic rationale and no overall defense plan.” But it effectively endorses the principles behind the buildup.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on tax reform.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Ruslter’s Rhapsody.”
On a wooded hillside overlooking downtown Atlanta, workers are putting the final touches on the Carter Presidential Center, the nation’s eighth library complex dedicated to a former President. Built with $25 million in private donations, it will house 27 million documents from Jimmy Carter’s term as President, and a 15,000-square-foot museum in which Mr. Carter, his image appearing on a television screen, will offer prerecorded responses to a computerized list of questions chosen by visitors. The topics range from what life was like in the White House to why he did not bomb Tehran in the Iranian hostage crisis. But when President Reagan joins Mr. Carter at the dedication ceremonies here October 1, it will also mark what Mr. Carter’s aides describe as an important step in the emerging public role the former President has sought to shape for himself in the six years since his devastating electoral defeat.
About 200 people protesting Yale University’s $400 million in investments in South Africa demonstrated at the inauguration of the New Haven, Connecticut, school’s new president, and at least three people were arrested. The demonstrators, some wearing white death masks and carrying miniature coffins, shouted, “Apartheid Kills, Yale Pays the Bills” as the inaugural procession for Benno C. Schmidt Jr. marched from Sterling Memorial Library to Woolsey Hall for the ceremonies. A handful of demonstrators later surrounded Schmidt at a reception, but the former Columbia Law School dean continued to greet guests. Yale trustee and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was caught briefly among the protesters as police with locked arms pushed the demonstrators away from Schmidt. Vance was not injured.
About 190 of the 240 Geo. A. Hormel & Co. meatpackers charged with misdemeanors during the bitter yearlong labor dispute in Austin, Minnesota, have agreed to an offer to drop charges against them in return for community service, Freeborn County District Judge James Mork said. A spokesman for the strikers said more are expected to accept. A few have said they want to contest the charges in court. The workers eligible for the settlement were charged with violating a court order limiting pickets, failure to disperse and resisting arrest. They are not required to admit guilt. The labor dispute formally ended September 12.
Throwing another roadblock in the way of the long-delayed Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear power plant, Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis refused to submit emergency evacuation plans for six communities to the federal government. “All the evidence I possess tells me if a serious accident occurs at Seabrook, there are real dangers of radioactive exposure against which emergency planning and evacuation cannot adequately protect,” Dukakis said in Boston. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval of evacuation plans in Massachusetts and in 17 New Hampshire towns is required.
Almost half of Chicago’s police officers and firefighters will be laid off unless the City Council agrees to a $79.9 million property tax increase by Wednesday, city officials say. The potential layoffs would affect 5,600 police officers and 2,000 firefighters, and officials said they would leave Chicago with a public safety force adequate to protect a city the size of Baltimore, with less than a third of Chicago’s population.
Senior military officers fear that John A. Walker Jr. is so deceptive that they will never be able to measure the damage caused by the Soviet spy ring he headed, according to Reagan Administration officials and others familiar with the case. Tests by polygraph, or lie detector, the sources said, showed that Mr. Walker, a retired Navy warrant officer, was deceptive about a much broader range of topics than was disclosed publicly in the last two weeks. Justice Department officials said they remained undecided about whether to honor the Government’s plea bargain with Mr. Walker and his son, Michael, another Navy veteran. Those who are knowledgeable about the case said Jerry A. Whitworth, a former Navy communications officer convicted for his part in the operation, underwent a series of polygraph examinations and interrogations in recent days.
Nearly eight years after the event, the story of the mass suicide and murder in the jungle of Guyana that took the lives of more than 900 people, most of them cult members, is about to be told again in a Federal courtroom here. Jury selection began Thursday in the retrial of Larry Layton, a former member of the People’s Temple cult. He is charged with conspiring to murder two people in a shooting at an airstrip near the cult’s jungle outpost as his last act on behalf of the Rev. Jim Jones, the leader of the cult. Mr. Layton, 40 years old, is charged with conspiring to murder Representative Leo J. Ryan, a Democrat from California. The Congressman had traveled to Guyana to investigate allegations that cult members who had fled from San Francisco with Mr. Jones and built a jungle community called Jonestown were being held there against their will.
Hawaii Lieutenant Governor John Waihee held a commanding lead of nearly 15,000 votes over former U.S. Rep. Cecil L. Heftel with about half the ballots counted in the Democratic primary race for governor. Waihee had 47.3%, contrasted with 35.2% for Heftel, who resigned last month to campaign full time. The winner will face former state Senator D. G. (Andy) Anderson, the GOP nominee. Incumbent Democratic Governor George Ariyoshi is barred by state law from another consecutive term. Mufi Hannemann, a former Ariyoshi aide and former White House fellow, took a narrow early lead over state Senator Neil Abercrombie in the Democratic primary race to succeed Heftel.
An Army troop carrier risks sinking in combat, weapons experts say. The flaw, which is suggested by newly uncovered documents, could halt infantry attacks at the banks of rivers in Europe, where the Bradley vehicle is deployed. Despite the risk, the Army and its prime contractor have pressed ahead with the $12.2 billion project. An Army spokesman said, “The Bradley has proved itself in the field.”
About 175 fleeing spectators were injured Friday night when someone dropped a tear-gas grenade into the stands at a high school football game in Gaffney, South Carolina, the authorities said. The cloud of gas “settled like a blanket” over the crowd as people streamed out of the stands to escape the fumes, said James Moncrief, principal of Gaffney Senior High School, where the game was played. About 175 people were treated at Cherokee Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokesman said. Eight people, including a pregnant woman, were admitted overnight for observation. Three were released Saturday.
Defense attorneys in the manslaughter case involving the film “Twilight Zone” have moved for dismissal of all chages, arguing that a “stench of perjury” permeates the case. In a motion filed Friday in Superior Court, the defense argued that conflicting testimony between the Government’s key witness and a former prosecutor indicated that one of them committed perjury and that the prosecution was guilty of misconduct.
A two-bedroom house disappeared earlier this week from the California lot where it was standing but has now turned up in another neighborhood 10 miles away, the authorities said today. The owner of the $11,000 house was taken to the neighborhood about midnight Friday and identified the structure as her missing dwelling, Sgt. Greg Collins said. The white stucco house was discovered Friday night on a lot in Altadena, about 10 miles northwest of the lot in Irwindale where it was being kept until it could be moved to a permanent location.
Marine mammal rescuers failed in their first attempt to capture porpoises locked in a deadly freshwater lake formed by a surging glacier near Yakutat in the southeast Alaska panhandle. About 25 porpoises outsmarted their would-be rescuers and eluded capture, said Joy McBride of the California Marine Mammal Center. Underwater sounds — including small explosives — were used to herd porpoises toward nets. The herding worked, McBride said, but as the porpoises swam near the nets and were close to capture, they escaped by swimming under the rescuers’ boats.
Thunderstorms bowled across the Plains, pushing rivers, creeks and streams over their banks and flooding streets. The rains caused scattered flooding across southern Iowa and northern Missouri. Thunderstorms also covered parts of southeast Minnesota, Illinois and southwest Wisconsin. Eleven inches of rain soaked Canton, Missouri. Parts of the Big Sioux River in southeast South Dakota were as much as four feet over flood stage.
In college football, the Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead and lose 36-35 to Morehead State.
Major League Baseball:
The Atlanta Braves defeated the San Francisco Giants, 2–1. Charlie Puleo pitched a three-hitter and knocked in a run to lead Atlanta past San Francisco. Puleo earned his first major league victory since July 3, 1984, but lost the shutout in the eighth when Will Clark hit his 11th home run. Puleo struck out eight, walked one and did not allow a runner past first base until the home run by Clark.
The Milwaukee Brewers bowed to the Baltimore Orioles, 4–3. Jim Traber came out of a 10-for-71 slump with a two-run, pinch-single in the eighth inning lifted Baltimore. The Brewers lost for the seventh consecutive time and fell three and a half games behind the sixth-place Orioles in the battle for the final two spots in the American League East. Baltimore has never finished last in its 33-year history.
The California Angels edged the Chicago White Sox, 8–7. Wally Joyner scored from the third base on the catcher Ron Karkovice’s passed ball with one out in the ninth inning, giving California the victory. The victory reduced California’s magic number for winning the American League West to seven. The Angels built their lead over Texas in the American League West to nine games. After Chicago’s Harold Baines tied the score at 7–7 with a bases-empty homer, his 21st, in the top of the ninth, Joyner hit a one-out double off Dave Schmidt (2–5). Joyner moved to third on a wild pitch, and the White Sox intentionally walked Mark Ryal and Reggie Jackson to load the bases. On the first pitch to Doug DeCinces, Karkovice committed his second passed ball of the game.
Rookie lefthander Jamie Moyer outdueled Rick Rhoden, and Ryne Sandberg led off the sixth inning with a home run to lift the Chicago Cubs over the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1–0. Moyer, 7–4, allowed six singles in seven innings, Ed Lynch pitched a hitless eighth and Lee Smith earned his 28th save, despite giving up two hits in the ninth. Rhoden, 15–10, allowed only four hits in his 11th complete game of the year. Moyer, walking five and allowing six hits including three straight to Tony Pena in the first seven innings, was aided by three double plays. Pena finished with four hits.
Pinch hitter Kal Daniels broke a tie with a two-run double in the seventh inning as Cincinnati rallied from a 5–0 deficit to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 9–5. Eddie Milner followed Daniels with a single that scored pinch runner Tom Browning for the Reds’ eighth run. Buddy Bell added a run-scoring single in the eighth. Dodgers reliever Dennis Powell, 2–6, took the loss. Rob Murphy, 3–0, won in relief.
The failure of the Yankee starting pitchers has only served to draw more attention to Ron Guidry’s struggles this year. He had been a constant since 1977, a three-time 20-game winner on a staff often made up of remnants. Now, in the final days of what may be his most disappointing season, Guidry is pitching for respectability and a new contract. The dollar value of that contract may have increased a bit today when he pitched seven strong innings, allowing just three hits and one run in the Yankees’ 5–2 victory against the Tigers. Dave Righetti finished, allowing the second run in the eighth. Rickey Henderson and Ron Kittle homered during a five-run first inning to lead New York.
Mike Scott struck out 11 and allowed five hits over seven innings to lead Houston over San Diego, 10–6. The Astros had 16 hits as they took an 11-game lead over San Francisco and Cincinnati with 14 games left. Their magic number for winning the National League West is four. San Diego’s Tony Gwynn stole five bases in the game, becoming the fifth man since 1900 to do so. The most recent was Alan Wiggins in 1984. Scott, 17–10, allowed three runs on five hits and increased his major-league leading strikeout total to 285 — the most for Houston since J.R. Richard struck out 313 in 1979. It was the 10th time this season that Scott has struck out 10 or more.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Montreal Expos, 3–1. Rick Horton pitched a five-hitter in his first complete game in more than two years as St. Louis defeated Montreal. Horton (4–3) struck out five and did not walk a batter in his seventh start this season. Horton retired the first 11 batters and went the distance for the first time since June 29, 1984, against San Diego.
In the sixth inning last night, Stanley Jefferson emerged quickly from the dugout, removed his batting helmet and waved it above his head. In the eighth, John Gibbons did the same thing. Now the curtain calls belong to the rookies. The regulars rested again, so the newest Mets rose to share some of the celebrating that still lingers from last week’s division clinching. Jefferson and Gibbons hit their first major league home runs — Gibbons’s was the last of his four hits in the game — and the Mets crushed the Phillies, 9–5, at Shea Stadium.
The Cleveland Indians outlasted the Oakland Athletics, 6–5. Brook Jacoby hit a one-out single in the 10th inning to drive in Mel Hall with the tie-breaking run. Hall opened the Indians 10th with an infield single off reliever Jay Howell, 2–6. After Cory Snyder struck out, Dave Clark walked and Jacoby followed with a single to left, scoring Hall.
The Seattle Mariners blanked the Kansas City Royals, 3–0. Seattle’s Mike Trujillo pitched a one-hitter for his first major league shutout, sending the Royals to their fifth straight defeat. Trujillo, a 26-year-old right-hander acquired from the Boston Red Sox August 22, allowed only a two-out first-inning line single to left by Jamie Quirk. It was Trujillo’s second start for the Mariners.
Tom Brunansky hit a two-out, two-run homer in the eighth inning that rallied Minnesota over Texas, 3–2. Brunansky’s 23rd homer of the season came off reliever Mitch Williams, 8–5, and scored Gary Gaetti, who had singled with two outs. It ended Texas’ four-game win streak.
George Bell drove in two runs, setting a club record for most in a season, and Jesse Barfield became the third player in Blue Jay history to reach the 100-run-batted-in mark, as Toronto defeated the Boston Red Sox, 5–2, today. The loss shaved Boston’s American League East lead over Toronto to eight and a half games. Joe Johnson scattered seven hits over seven and a third innings en route to his fifth victory in his last six decisions. Johnson raised his record to 6–2 since coming over from Atlanta on July 6, and 12–9 overall on the season. Mark Eichhorn finished for his 10th save.
San Francisco Giants 1, Atlanta Braves 2
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Baltimore Orioles 4
Chicago White Sox 7, California Angels 8
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Chicago Cubs 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Cincinnati Reds 9
New York Yankees 5, Detroit Tigers 2
San Diego Padres 6, Houston Astros 10
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Montreal Expos 1
Philadelphia Phillies 5, New York Mets 9
Cleveland Indians 6, Oakland Athletics 5
Kansas City Royals 0, Seattle Mariners 3
Minnesota Twins 3, Texas Rangers 2
Boston Red Sox 2, Toronto Blue Jays 5
Born:
AJ Ramos, MLB pitcher (All Star, 2016; Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Angels), in Lubbock, Texas.
Vernon Macklin, NBA center (Detroit Pistons), in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Kevin Thomas, NFL cornerback (Indianapolis Colts), in St. Louis, Missouri.
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