President Reagan said today that recent arms-control exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union might mark “the beginning of a serious, productive negotiation on arms reduction.” “All of this gives me hope,” the President said in an address to delegates to the United Nations General Assembly. But he said that “a pall has been cast over our relations with the Soviet Union” by the arrest of an American journalist, Nicholas S. Daniloff, which he called “a particularly disturbing example of Soviet transgressions against human rights.” “The Soviet Union bears the responsibility for the consequences of its action,” Mr. Reagan said. Mr. Reagan made no mention of a summit meeting in his 37-minute speech, which was applauded only at the end. The Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who took notes as he listened to the speech, did not applaud. Mr. Reagan also said the Daniloff case was one of several troublesome areas that remained in East-West relations.
Western diplomats said here today that they intended to use a new conference opening Tuesday in Vienna to continue to press the Warsaw Pact for information about its force deployments in Europe. An East-West conference that just ended here resulted in a major pact aimed at reducing the risk of war in Europe. But the United States delegate, Robert L. Barry, today stressed the failure of the negotiators to agree on an exchange of information between NATO and the Warsaw Pact about the size, nature and location of their forces in Europe. Mr. Barry attributed the failure to Soviet opposition. Addressing the closing session of the Stockholm conference, Mr. Barry took a more reserved attitude than most delegates toward the agreement reached here.
The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl emitted as much long-term radiation into the world’s air, topsoil and water as all the nuclear tests and bombs ever exploded, according to a new study of the April 26 Soviet accident. The study, by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, says the Soviet reactor may even have emitted 50 percent more radioactive cesium, the primary long-term component in fallout, than have the total of hundreds of atmospheric tests and the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II. Cesium does not decay into harmless substances for more than 100 years and has been associated with health effects such as cancer and genetic disease. Nuclear bombs emit much more radiation that can cause severe immediate problems, but it lasts only days or weeks. Nuclear reactors, by contrast, produce more substances that can persist much longer in the environment, posing a continuing, although smaller, threat to life.
The Soviet Government press agency Tass said today that two armed drug addicts had tried to hijack an airliner on the ground in the city of Ufa, in the Urals, killing two policemen and two passengers before the hijackers themselves were slain. Tass, in describing the Saturday incident, said that the two men, identified as N. R. Mantsev and S.V. Yagmurzhi, had commandeered a taxi and forced the driver to take them to the airport. Trying to shake off pursuers, they shot dead the two policemen. At the airport, they seized a Tupolev 134 airliner that was stopping over in Ufa on a flight from Kiev to the West Siberian oil city of Nizhnevartovsk with 76 passengers on board.
The Warsaw Government has jailed dozens of conscripts for refusing to take an oath obliging them to fight alongside the Soviet Army, an outlawed pacifist group said today. Leaders of the group, Freedom and Peace, which claims 10,000 supporters nationwide, told Western reporters the oath was a “violation of human rights” and should be abolished. The oath, taken after three months of service, includes a promise to “relentlessly defend peace in the brotherly alliance.” Refusal to take the oath constitutes a refusal to serve in the army, a violation of Polish law. The group said at least 30 of its members jailed for refusing to take the oath or serve in the army had been released. One member remains in prison, another was placed in a mental hospital and six face prosecution, it said.
Norway’s Labor government banned the United States from using F-111 jet bombers in NATO exercises held over Norwegian territory for fear the Kremlin would interpret them as a provocation, Defense Ministry officials said in Oslo. A ministry spokesman said that the jets, used in a raid on Libya earlier this year, are not part of allied plans to defend Norway in times of crisis or war. But North Atlantic Treaty Organization diplomats predicted that the Norwegian refusal will be interpreted as a snub to Washington.
The police in France are still leaning toward a theory that relatives and friends of a suspected terrorist being held in France are responsible for a recent wave of terrorist attacks here. The police are sticking with the hypothesis despite efforts by the family in northern Lebanon to establish their innocence. The police have been responding to a series of news agency reports reaching here over the weekend from Qubayat, in northern Lebanon, the home village of the suspected terrorist leader, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. The reports have quoted notables from the town, including its mayor and a Maronite priest, as saying that two brothers of Mr. Abdallah whom the French police named in the bombing attacks were in Lebanon at the time of the bomb explosions.
Israel told the Security Council today that it would not dismantle its “security zone” inside Lebanon as demanded by the United Nations. The statement came amid reports from Lebanon of significant Israeli troop movements along the Lebanese border. An Israeli military source said there was no unusual activity in the area. If Israel withdrew from the zone, “the entire area along Israel’s border would fill up” with Palestinian and Moslem extremist fighters, said Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s chief delegate, in a speech to the Council.
Senior Israeli military sources said that a radical Palestinian faction led by Abu Nidal carried out the hijacking of a Pan American plane in Karachi, Pakistan, and a massacre in a Turkish synagogue, both earlier this month. Among the evidence they cited as implicating Abu Nidal was his reported claims of responsibility for previous synagogue attacks in Europe and the fact that his group had in the past tried to stage more than one attack at a time. The Israeli sources said they did not have complete details on either attack and drew on press reports to support their assertion.
Israel will downgrade its diplomatic representation in Austria to protest the election of Kurt Waldheim as president, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. The Foreign Ministry appointed a lower-level diplomat, Gideon Yarden, to head the embassy because diplomatic protocol obliges an ambassador to present his credentials to the president, the spokesman said. Israel’s policy is to avoid contact with Waldheim while maintaining good relations with the Austrian government, the spokesman said. Ambassador Michael Elitzur was recalled after Waldheim’s June 8 election.
Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze and Prime Minister Shimon Peres met for more than an hour today, and Mr. Peres said they had agreed to consider normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and Israel. It was the highest level at which Soviet and Israeli officials have met officially since Moscow severed relations after the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. Some Israeli diplomats said they believed it was also the first high-level Soviet contact ever with an Israeli Prime Minister. Both sides said the atmosphere was more constructive today than at talks last month in Helsinki, Finland, between Soviet and Israeli officials. Those talks broke down when the Israelis raised questions about the emigration of Soviet Jews.
Centrist Arab Governments that support Iraq in its war with Iran are becoming increasingly apprehensive about the possibility of a major new Iranian offensive, according to Western and Arab sources in Egypt, Jordan and the Persian Gulf. Such a drive, these sources believe, could break through demoralized Iraqi lines and set off a wave of Moslem fundamentalism that would threaten governments throught the region. As the Iran-Iraq war went into its seventh year today, reports circulating in government, military and diplomatic circles of Arab capitals spoke of deepening demoralization under the Iraqi Government of President Saddam Hussein, whom the Arab lands had seen as the line of defense against forces unleashed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran. For weeks, Iranian religious leaders, who insist the war will not end until Mr. Hussein is overthrown, have been calling for a “final offensive.”
The Iranian press agency said today that soldiers marked the sixth anniversary of the start of the war against Iraq today by marching in Teheran past throngs chanting “Death to the U.S.” The agency, monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, quoted President Ali Khamenei of Iran as having told the crowd: “Iranian forces are more prepared and vigilant than ever. The Iraqi army has low morale and is doomed to failure.”
Security forces stormed rebel hideouts in the jungles of eastern Sri Lanka, killing 16 rebels, the government reported. Government sources also reported the imposition of a 17-hour curfew in the city of Batticaloa, 150 miles east of the capital of Colombo, for the third successive night after guerrillas exploded a series of bombs. The violence followed the killing of 15 Tamil civilians in a car bombing last week. Residents organized a three-day peaceful protest over the killings.
Thailand is sending a new Ambassador to Washington next week in hopes he can do something to ease his Government’s worries about isolationist and protectionist trends in the United States. The envoy, Arsa Sarasin, is Thailand’s highest ranking foreign service officer. Mr. Sarasin spoke at length of Thailand’s foreign policy concerns in an interview here Friday.
President Aquino criticized the U.N. for not supporting the Filipino struggle to oust Ferdinand E. Marcos. She spoke on the opening day of the 41st session of the General Assembly from the same podium where Imelda Marcos stood a year ago.
Pablo Antonio Vega, a Roman Catholic bishop expelled from Nicaragua last July by the Sandinista government, said that Nicaraguan bishops will try to negotiate his return in talks with Sandinista officials. Speaking at a U.S. Catholic Conference press conference in Washington, Vega said he believes that Nicaraguan Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo will participate in the talks, due to begin Saturday. Vega was expelled from Nicaragua after the government accused him of supporting U.S. policy against the Managua government. Vega is vice president of the Nicaraguan Bishops Conference and has been one of the Sandinista government’s harshest critics.
Archeologists have discovered the remains of a lost Inca city close to Macchu Picchu and about twice its size, a Peruvian government spokesman said. The city, named Marampata, was spotted in an aerial survey last week by archeologists Reynaldo Chohfi of UCLA and Octavio Fernandez of Peru’s National Cultural Institute. A spokesman said heavy rains prevented a land expedition from exploring the ruins, about three miles north of Macchu Picchu. He said the site was covered by dense undergrowth but terraces, buildings and a wall about 200 yards long were identified from the air.
The Liberian Government lifted a ban today on the United People’s Party of former Foreign Minister Gabriel Baccus Matthews. President Samuel Doe’s office, in a prepared statement, said the move was an effort to bring about unity and reconciliation among Liberians. The party was barred from an election last October in which President Doe was declared the winner. The three parties allowed to take part in the election said it was rigged. Mr. Matthews led the political agitation against former President William Tolbert that preceded the coup in 1980 that brought Mr. Doe to power.
The Government of Mozambique appealed today for urgent food aid to feed nearly four million people, almost a third of this southern African nation’s population, who are facing famine. The number of people at risk has doubled in six months, it said. Jacinto Veloso, Minister of Cooperation, said rebel activity in remote provinces and recurring drought aggravated problems with food distribution. Mr. Veloso said the latest estimate was the highest since January 1984, during a yearlong famine that killed 100,000 people.
Hundreds of militant black mine workers, waving sticks and chanting slogans, disrupted a memorial service today for 177 miners who were killed in a South African gold-mine disaster last week. “We don’t respect the management and we don’t respect their memorial,” one angry miner told a reporter at the multiracial service, organized by the mine owners at Evander, 60 miles east of Johannesburg. Last Tuesday, 172 blacks and 5 whites died when fire swept through a mile-deep underground passage, asphyxiating many with toxic fumes thought to have been emitted by a burning polyurethane sealant on the shaft walls. It was the worst recorded gold-mine disaster in South African history.
Rival Zulu factions battled with guns in a remote South African mountain valley of Natal province, killing 15 fighters, the police said today. The battle apparently arose from a longstanding conflict between the Vuma and Menyeswayo factions in the Greytown district north of Durban, said Capt. Pieter Kitching, a regional police spokesman.
The space agency is moving forward on modifications of the shuttle’s booster rockets amid rising concerns that it may be discarding more reliable designs in an effort to save time and hundreds of millions of dollars. The focal point of the criticism is the agency’s quiet decision in recent months to reject, at least for now, design changes that would require scrapping 72 giant steel rocket casings ordered six months before the space shuttle Challenger blew up on Jan. 28, killing its crew of seven. That decision has prompted serious questions about whether the program for repairing the rocket’s flaws permits engineers to build in the best possible margin of safety, especially in light of discoveries made since the Challenger disaster. Meanwhile, there is growing apprehension among some involved in the shuttle redesign. “Everything is schedule, schedule, schedule,” one senior engineer at Morton Thiokol Inc., which makes the rockets, said last week, complaining that new ideas for ways of sealing joints on the rockets were being dismissed. “There is a lot of frustration that we don’t have time to do the job right,” said the engineer, who insisted on anonymity.
The President and First Lady leave Washington for New York.
President Reagan addresses the 41st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
By voice vote, the House Ways and Means Committee agreed on $3.6 billion worth of new revenue-raising proposals, including a 0.5% of cargo value fee on imported goods, which will become part of a $15.5-billion package of deficit-reduction moves the House is due to consider this week. The measures augment $2.8 billion in revenue proposals the panel had previously approved.
The House and the Senate have left the major budget decisions of the year to the last few weeks of the election-year session, and legislators are openly questioning whether the deficit-reducing law has worked. Before their scheduled departure in early October, there is the possibility of a clash with the Reagan Administration and maybe even a Presidential veto. After the fireworks, the deficit will be tallied. Only then will official Washington, and the voters, have the information they need to make a definitive judgment on the effectiveness of the new budget law aimed at eliminating the Federal deficit by 1991. But many legislators and experts already are saying that the landmark law, approved last December in a desperate effort to bring the deficit under control, has so far not fulfilled its promise. And it is not clear if it will be any more effective next year. The scurrying to reduce deficits involves three different bills: The first is a separate package of measures to cut the 1987 deficit, which the Senate approved last week. A similar version is pending before the House.
The House approved and sent to the Senate legislation strengthening protections for government employees who blow the whistle on government waste or wrongdoing. The measure came in response to complaints that an office set up to protect workers who report waste or mismanagement has failed to provide adequate protection. A congressional review found that few federal workers qualify for legal representation by the Office of Special Counsel at the Merit Systems Protection Board, and that the office functions more to protect employers than employees.
The cost of running a hospital or a physician’s office is increased relatively little by rapidly rising malpractice insurance rates, the General Accounting Office said. In a 102-page report requested by Congress, the agency presented the first comprehensive national data on how malpractice insurance costs have affected hospitals and doctors.
The policy commission of the Democratic National Committee issued a 71-page compendium of recommendations for the party, including commitments to “stronger” families, economic growth, “take-charge” trade policies and effective national defense. None are binding on Democratic candidates. Although the apparent effort to give the party a more centrist image will please some Democrats, it troubled a newly formed liberal group, Democratic Alternatives, which complained that the report made no reference to such national problems as discrimination and called it “unnecessarily timid.”
Eight families, who charged that water pollution by W. R. Grace & Company had resulted in the death from leukemia of five children and an adult, announced a settlement with the company today. Lawyers for each side refused to disclose the terms of the agreement except to say it was “substantial.” The announcement came as the second stage in a complex trial was to begin in Federal District Court here this morning. The trial had attracted widespread attention because of belief that a jury finding might have set a national precedent holding polluters responsible for the medical consequences of their action.
A fugitive wanted in the deaths of two people in Indianapolis who vowed he would not be taken alive fled westward through Illinois and into Missouri, stealing more than six cars and trucks and abducting at least five people briefly, police said. The manhunt for Michael W. Jackson, 40, of Indianapolis was centered in Warren County in eastern Missouri after he was seen by police in Wright City, Missouri, in a stolen car, and is believed to have shot and slightly wounded an officer, an O’Fallon, Missouri, police spokesman said.
People Express’s unorthodox ways of management that enchanted Harvard Business School professors and management theorists helped bring about People’s downfall, according to People employees, former executives, analysts and others. People’s financial woes have forced People’s chairman, Donald C. Burr, to agree to sell the airline to an archrival, the Texas Air Corporation. An important question remains: Did People ultimately fail because of its unorthodox nature, or in spite of it?
The California attorney general’s office has won a court order allowing it to examine petition signatures gathered to put the anti-AIDS Proposition 64 on the November 4 ballot. The order issued by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Warren Deering is part of an investigation by the attorney general into whether some of about 500,000 signatures that qualified the measure for the ballot were illegally obtained. If passed, the measure would give acquired immune deficiency syndrome the legal status of an infectious disease and would attempt to bar victims and carriers of the AIDS antibody from jobs in restaurants, schools and medical facilities.
In what federal drug agents called “the largest cocaine seizure ever made on the California-Mexico border,” U.S. Border Patrol agents confiscated a pick-up truck carrying 1,285 pounds of the drug-with an estimated street value of $57 million. Two trucks, including one described as a “scout” vehicle by authorities, were seized in an isolated area in eastern San Diego County. Federal authorities said the driver of the truck containing the cocaine, Noel Armando Aispuro of Rosemead, was booked for investigation of various drug charges. The driver of the alleged scout truck, Manuel de Jesus Zazueta-Beltran, was held on suspicion of being an illegal alien.
The prosecutor in the Albany, Georgia murder trial of a nurse accused of killing six patients with injections of potassium chloride concluded his case today without calling nearly 60 scheduled witnesses. District Attorney Hobart Hind said at the start of the trial in Dougherty County Superior Court that he planned to call 90 witnesses against Terri Rachals, 25 years old, accused of injecting 11 patients with potassium chloride.
The FMC Corporation yesterday denied assertions that it had not properly tested the ability of the Bradley infantry vehicle to swim across rivers and streams. It said it was “examining legal recourse against” a company engineer who made the allegations in a lawsuit. The company, which manufactures the 22-ton armored personnel carrier in San Jose, California, said tests and field maneuvers proved that the Bradley “swims in accordance with U.S. Army requirements.”
Shares of Spanish treasure recovered from a 17th-century ship that sank off Key West are to be distributed soon to investors who backed the 16-year recovery effort led by Mel Fisher, a treasure salvager. Letters will go out to 1,140 people who claim a share in the cargo of gold, silver and jewels recovered in 1985 from the wreck of the Nuestra Senora de la Atocha. Treasure recovered in 1986 will be split with investors next year.
A rare throat cancer appears to have a “significant association” with longtime occupancy of mobile homes, according to research conducted for the Environmental Protection Agency. The cancer is nasopharyngeal cancer, or a cancer of the part of the throat leading to the nose. Although rare, it is frequently fatal soon after diagnosis. Researchers who discovered the association are not yet ready to say that their chief suspect in the atmosphere of mobile homes, formaldehyde, causes the cancer. Their report advised “extreme caution” in interpretation.
More than 2,000 striking winery workers voted today on a proposal to end their walkout, which entered its sixth week against some of the $5.5 billion California wine industry’s biggest producers. Results should be known this week Dan Sotelo, a spokesman for Local 45 of the Winery, Distillery and Allied Workers Union, said.
Volunteers abandoned their efforts to rescue porpoises trapped when Hubbard Glacier plugged the mouth of Russell Fiord on the southeastern Alaska panhandle. The workers, outwitted by the porpoises in rescue efforts on Friday and Sunday, had planned one more attempt today, but the weather turned bad, said Howard Rosenfeld, director of the Whale Museum in Friday Harbor, Washington, which coordinated the expedition.
Major League Baseball:
Pinch runner Omar Moreno scored the winning run in the ninth inning on a fielding error by San Diego catcher Benito Santiago as Atlanta defeated San Diego, 9–8. Bob Horner, who had hit his 24th homer in the fourth, led off the Atlanta ninth with a walk against LaMarr Hoyt, 7–11, the sixth Padres pitcher. Moreno, running for Horner, went to second on a wild pitch by Hoyt and to third on a sacrifice by Gerald Perry. After pinch hitter Chris Chambliss was walked intentionally, Ozzie Virgil flied out to right. Moreno first broke toward the plate, but seeing there was no chance to score returned to third. But when the throw got away from Santiago, Moreno easily scored.
At this time of year, Willie Randolph was saying after the Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles by 4–2 tonight, “it helps to have something to motivate you.” The Yankees, perhaps only two days away from being eliminated from the American League East race, had a bunch of players tonight who had goals to motivate them. Randolph got two hits, a single and a home run, giving him 1,500 hits for his career. Don Mattingly also had two hits, raising his league-leading average to a season-high .351, which put him 5 points ahead of Wade Boggs of Boston, which did not play. Then there was Dave Righetti, baseball’s No. 1 relief pitcher, who registered his 41st save, placing him only four away from the major league record. Rookie Phil Lombardi hit a two-run homer.
Rich Yett pitched a four-hitter in the third start of his career as Cleveland had 16 hits and beat California, 7–0, in the nightcap for a split of a double-header. The Angels won the opener, 4–3, as Bobby Grich’s three-run homer in the sixth inning gave 41-year-old Don Sutton his 15th victory and cut California’s magic number for winning the American League West to four. Yett, 5–3, a rookie, walked four in the first three innings and only one afterward. He struck out five in his first big-league complete game; he has made 35 relief appearances. The Indians scored runs off rookie Ray Chadwick, 0–5, with little delay. Joe Carter and Mel Hall hit successive RBI doubles in the first inning. Julio Franco doubled in the third and scored on Hall’s single to make it 3–0. Grich’s homer in the first game came with two outs against Scott Bailes, 10–10, and erased a 3–1 lead the Indians had built.
The Montreal Expos beat the Chicago Cubs, 5–2. Andre Dawson hit a home run and Tim Raines drove in two runs with two singles to lead Montreal and snap Chicago’s three-game winning streak. Floyd Youmans (13–10) pitched a four-hitter through eight and a third innings before Jeff Reardon pitched the final two outs for his 35th save. Youmans allowed two unearned runs striking out eight and walking three. The loss went to Dennis Eckersley, 6–11.
At Riverfront, the Reds score 4 in the 9th but fall short, losing to the Giants, 10–7. Bob Brenley and Dan Gladden homer in the Giants’ 6-run 6th. Gladden’s is a grand slam. Gladden’s fourth homer highlighted a six-run sixth inning off Chris Welsh (6–8) and Scott Terry, the reliever, as San Francisco moved into second place in the National League West, a game ahead of Cincinnati.
The Toronto Blue Jays bowed to the Detroit Tigers, 2–1. Detroit got only three hits off Toronto’s Jim Clancy, but Jack Morris tossed a six-hitter for his 19th victory as Detroit beat Toronto. The loss by Toronto lowered Boston’s magic number for winning the American League East to three games. The Red Sox were idle. Clancy (14–12) struck out four and walked two in his fifth consecutive loss. Morris (19–8) struck out five. His only walk came after Ernie Whitt’s 15th home run in the Toronto second.
Dodgers ace Fernando Valenzuela becomes the National League’s first 20-game winner this season, beating the Astros 9–2 on 2 hits. He struck out five and walked three. He’s the first Mexican to win 20 games in a season. right fielder Ralph Bryant backs Fernando with a double and homer but makes two errors, one a 4-base error in the 7th allowing Kevin Bass to score. He’s replaced in the 8th. This is the third 4-base error this season. Valenzuela (20–10) is the first Dodger to win 20 games since Tommy John did it in 1977. The loss cuts Houston’s lead in the National League West to nine games over San Francisco with 12 games left in the regular season. The magic number is four, meaning any combination of Houston victories and San Francisco defeats totaling four would give the Astros the title.
The Minnesota Twins edged the Kansas City Royals, 2–1. Tim Laudner doubled home Tom Brunansky from first base with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning for Minnesota. Laudner’s hit bounced off the left-field wall, and Lonnie Smith stumbled while trying to field it as Brunansky headed for home. Keith Atherton (6–10) snapped a personal seven-game losing streak.
Where had Dwight Gooden been all summer? There were theories, but none of them really mattered last night. The gifted Met pitcher, who endured a confusing stretch and some uncharacteristic hard times, has apparently returned. Gooden pitched a two-hitter at Shea Stadium and beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5–2, last night for his 16th victory and 12th complete game of the season. Then he smiled and nodded when someone asked if he had permitted himself to think about the Houston Astros. Rafael Santana drove in two runs
and Darryl Strawberry and Wally Backman hit home runs.
The Oakland A’s, out of the divisional race, have two players in the running for the American League home run title. Rookie outfielder Jose Canseco’s towering drive in the third inning not only helped the A’s to a 5–3 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday, but his 33rd homer put him in a four-way tie for the AL lead with Toronto’s Jesse Barfield, Milwaukee’s Rob Deer and teammate Dave Kingman. “It’s not like I’m trying to hit home runs lately,” said Canseco, who also leads the league with 115 RBI, just three shy of the club record shared by Reggie Jackson and Kingman. “I haven’t even struck out in the last four games, which is rare for me.” Canseco came close to hitting number 34 in the sixth inning, but the ball bounced over the center field fence on one hop for a ground-rule double. Right-hander Jose Rijo, 8–11, was credited with the victory with relief help from Jay Howell, who recorded his 14th save. Floyd Bannister, 10–12, was the victim of three unearned runs.
The Philadelphia Phillies downed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8–4. Jeff Bittiger hit a homer for his first major league hit and scattered six hits over six and two-thirds innings, and Mike Schmidt hit his 495th career home run to lead Philadelphia. Glenn Wilson hit a three-run homer and John Russell added a two-run shot as the Phillies won for the ninth time in 11 games.
Ruben Sierra and Pete O’Brien homered and Edwin Correa threw a six-hit shutout, striking out 10 batters, as Texas beat Seattle, 2–0. Correa, 11–13, walked three in his third complete game and second shutout of the season. The rookie matched his season high in strikeouts. Seattle’s Mark Langston, 12–13, struck out 11 batters as he went the distance and allowed only three hits and four walks. Pete Incaviglia struck out three times and tied the American League’s single-season record with his 175th strikeout this season. Correa allowed at least one baserunner in each of the first six innings. He worked out of a bases-loaded situation in the second by getting Harold Reynolds to shallow fly out and striking out John Moses.
San Diego Padres 8, Atlanta Braves 9
New York Yankees 4, Baltimore Orioles 2
Cleveland Indians 3, California Angels 4
Cleveland Indians 7, California Angels 0
Montreal Expos 5, Chicago Cubs 2
San Francisco Giants 10, Cincinnati Reds 7
Toronto Blue Jays 1, Detroit Tigers 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 9, Houston Astros 2
Kansas City Royals 1, Minnesota Twins 2
St. Louis Cardinals 2, New York Mets 5
Chicago White Sox 3, Oakland Athletics 5
Philadelphia Phillies 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Texas Rangers 2, Seattle Mariners 0
NFL Monday Night Football:
Steve McMichael was credited with a safety in the fourth quarter and Kevin Butler kicked three field goals in the game as the Chicago Bears won a hard-fought 25–12 victory tonight over the Green Bay Packers. The Bears (3–0) scored 15 points in the final quarter to defeat the Packers (0–3). Green Bay’s Al Del Greco, who kicked four field goals in the game, lined up for a 52-yard attempt with 8 minutes 16 seconds left in the game and the Bears leading, 13–12. But Dan Hampton broke through to block the kick, and the Bears recovered. The Packers got the ball back when a defensive back, Tom Flynn, picked off a Steve Fuller pass with 5:21 left in the game, but Green Bay was forced to start from its own 6-yard-line. On the first play, McMichael caught the Packers’ quarterback, Randy Wright, in the end zone. Wright escaped from McMichael’s grasp, but the officials ruled that the quarterback had been in the defender’s grasp. That put Green Bay behind, 15–12, and the Packers had to kick the ball to the Bears. Three plays after the free kick, Steve Fuller connected with Keith Ortego on a 42-yard pass play to give the Bears a 22–12 lead with 3:38 remaining in the game. On the Packers’ next possession, Dave Duerson, a Chicago safety, picked off a Wright pass, setting up Butler’s third field goal, a 27-yarder with 2:25 remaining.
Chicago Bears 25, Green Bay Packers 12
With its “witching hour” problems over and interest rates dipping a bit, Wall Street yesterday staged its most potent rally in more than two weeks. Investors, who have jettisoned stocks they considered unattractive in an environment of rising interest rates, yesterday actively bid up the price of those same shares. The result was a sizable gain for most market indicators, including a 30.80-point jump in the Dow Jones industrial average, to 1,793.45. “I think it’s the absence of fear,” said Robert Stovall of Stovall 21st Advisers Inc. in explaining the improvement. He added that investors were no longer worried that they were “going to get whacked by some options-related programs.”
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1793.45 (+30.8)
Born:
Derek Cox, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars, San Diego Chargers), in Greenville, North Carolina.
Lido Pimienta, Colombian-Canadian Latin-synth-pop musician, singer, and songwriter (Miss Columbia), in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Will Sharpe, English actor (“The White Lotus”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
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