Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union said today that despite major differences with the United States, a summit meeting was now “a realistic possibility.” Addressing the General Assembly, he said, “Encouraging outlines of meaningful agreements have been emerging lately.” A State Department spokesman said later that the case of an American journalist accused of espionage in Moscow — the main obstacle blocking the setting of a date for President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev to meet — had not yet been resolved. The comment followed speculation that moves were under way to find a solution to the case of Nicholas S. Daniloff, correspondent of U.S. News & World Report. Mr. Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George P. Shultz conferred twice — for 50 minutes this morning and for 90 minutes this evening — in what appeared to be an effort to resolve the case. Bernard Kalb, the State Department spokesman, reported no resolution in the morning meeting. He declined to comment after the evening session. Mr. Shevardnadze told reporters after the morning meeting that he had proposed ways of resolving the matter. “There are good chances for solving this problem,” he said. “I have made all my proposals. My conscience is clear. These are serious and regular discussions. And the less noise there is, the better for all, because wiser decisions are made in a quiet and calm atmosphere.”
The United States wants Mr. Daniloff to be returned to the United States and his case not to be equated with that of Gennadi F. Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations, who faces trial on espionage charges in New York. Contrary to expectations, no date for trial was set today in the Zakharov case. In a brief proceeding in the United States District Court in Brooklyn, the judge merely appointed a court officer to safeguard secret Government documents to be offered in evidence during a trial. [ Page A11. ] The arrest of Mr. Zakharov on Aug. 23 is believed to have triggered Mr. Daniloff’s arrest in Moscow a week later. The Soviet Union has tried to work out an exchange of the two men, who are in the custody of their respective embassies pending trial. On Sunday, after two days of talks in Washington with Mr. Shevardnadze, Mr. Shultz said he had told the Foreign Minister that there was no point in having a further meeting in New York unless “there was something substantial” on the Daniloff case. Their meetings today were not announced in advance. The first was held in the office of the President of the Security Council, this month the Soviet representative, and was discovered by reporters who confronted the two officials as they emerged.
A two-week meeting opened in Vienna today to prepare an agenda for a new 35-nation European security conference that is to open in November. Delegations from 35 nations — the United States, Canada and all the European countries apart from Albania -began preparing the agenda and timetable for the conference, the third follow-up meeting in the so-called Helsinki process, which was begun in 1975. The only public sessions so far agreed to for November are speeches by the delegation leaders.
The allied Liberal and Social Democratic Parties in the United Kingdom appeared to have been thrown into disarray today when the Liberals repudiated by a narrow vote a stand on nuclear weapons by the leaders of the two parties. David Steel, who has struggled to lead the party of Gladstone and Lloyd George back from the political wilderness where it has spent the last seven decades, had tried to bridge his party’s traditional opposition to a British nuclear deterrent to the stand of the fledgling Social Democrats. The newer party, led by former members of the Labor Party who resisted Labor’s move to a policy of nuclear disarmament, has resisted committing Britain to a nonnuclear future. Its leader, David Owen, has argued that the Alliance, as the centrist grouping is known, had to make clear its readiness to replace the Polaris missile system that is due to become obsolete in the late 1990’s.
The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, urged the General Assembly today to combat “the scourge of international terrorism.” Sir Geoffrey was one of 11 speakers, including Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union, on the second day of the Assembly’s 41st session, and terrorism was a recurrent theme. Speaking for the European Community, Sir Geoffrey said the 12-nation group had served as a model for other nations in building stability and trust. This trust, he said, “has allowed us to build up our joint political and economic strength.”
World Jewish Congress officials said that an exhortation to “kill the Jews” was among a packet of antisemitic propaganda initialed by Kurt Waldheim while he served in the German army during World War II. The German pamphlets, discovered in the U.S. National Archives, were turned over to the Justice Department as part of the congress’ campaign to have the Austrian president banned from entering the United States. The leaflets were prepared for dropping behind Soviet lines to encourage Red Army soldiers to defect. Waldheim has denied charges that he was aware of Nazi atrocities and attacks against Jews.
A French weekly newspaper says that the Government negotiated directly this year with a Lebanese group believed responsible for the recent bomb attacks in Paris. The weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, which is known for satirical commentary and political exposes, said French representatives negotiated with the group, the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, in Madrid in May and in later meetings. The representatives, the newspaper says in its Wednesday issue, promised that a way would be found to release George Ibrahim Abdallah, the presumed leader of the group, in exchange for an end to terror bombings here between December and March. The paper says that when France failed to turn over Mr. Abdallah, the group began a new wave of terror aimed at obtaining his release from prison.
Former Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit was acquitted by an Ankara court of violating a ban imposed by the former military government on his involvement in party politics. The original charge stemmed from a speech that Ecevit made in May at a rally of the small Democratic Left Party, led by his wife, Rahsan. Ecevit, 61, told the court that he had done no more than assert his legal right to explain which party he supports.
Israeli jets bombed Palestinian positions in the mountains overlooking the capital today. Guerrillas from hard-line Palestinian groups are known to have been living in the district of Aleih, where the positions that were bombed are situated. The air strike came 24 hours after the Israeli Army was reported to have massed troops and armor along Lebanon’s southern border. The Israeli troop movements, which raised fears on Monday of a possible Israeli attack on Iranian-backed Shiite militiamen in southern Lebanon, caused the militias in the region to go into a state of high alert.
Israel’s Foreign Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, said today that Israel had no plans for a new invasion of Lebanon. He spoke in an interview here hours after Israeli jets bombed Palestinian positions in the Lebanese mountains overlooking Beirut. The air strike came 24 hours after the Israeli Army was reported to have massed troops and armor along Lebanon’s southern border. In Jerusalem, Israeli military analysts said pressure was building on the Israeli Army to attack an Iranian-backed Shiite militia involved in attacks on Israeli, United Nations and Christian militia forces in southern Lebanon. In the interview, Mr. Shamir repeated Israel’s position that it will not withdraw its troops from the Israeli-designated “security zone” in southern Lebanon, as demanded by the Security Council. But he expressed the hope that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, known as Unifil, would continue to function alongside Israeli troops and the Israeli-backed force known as the South Lebanon Army.
More than four months before a truck bomb destroyed the United States Marine garrison in Beirut, a team of military experts warned of serious failings in American intelligence in Lebanon, according to a member of the team. The shortcomings in intelligence were later cited by an investigating commission as one of the principal causes of the inadequate security that led to the death of 241 servicemen on October 23, 1983. Bill Cowan, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel who was a member of the five-man team, said the report was delivered to senior Defense Department officials and the Marine headquarters in Washington. Mr. Cowan said team members believe “the likelihood of a major incident like that would have been significantly decreased” had some of their recommendations been followed. The team was sent to Beirut in early 1983, shortly after a truck bomb had devastated the American Embassy there. The existence of the report was disclosed in a letter to some members of Congress by Noel C. Koch, who recently resigned from the Pentagon after five years as the senior official in charge of special operations.
Libya sold its share in Fiat for about $3 billion, the automobile maker announced in Rome. The sale of the Libyans’ 14 percent frees Italy’s largest private company of a partner that proved an embarrassment to it and the Italian Government while giving Libya a vast profit. The price, in line with current market values, brought Libya more than seven times the $400 million it paid in 1976.
Western diplomats said today that new fighting had flared around Kabul, the Afghan capital, and as many as 15 Afghan soldiers were being killed each day. Heavy fighting started late last month with what Moslem guerrilla leaders called their biggest offensive in three years against Kabul, but there had been a lull in the past week. The Western sources said guerrillas were attacking Government defense posts in the Paghman district north of Kabul and launching rocket attacks on the city. The sources said they had no word on guerrilla casualties.
Soviet-backed Afghan forces have been losing 10 to 15 men a day in an offensive against rebel strongholds outside the Afghan capital of Kabul, Western diplomats said in New Delhi. One of the diplomats said that Afghan troops were being used for most of the ground assaults while Soviet forces were primarily providing artillery and air support. There was no report on Soviet or rebel casualties. Western sources in Islamabad, Pakistan, said the guerrillas are still attacking government posts in the area and firing rockets into Kabul.
A U.S. Embassy official in Thailand tried unsuccessfully to confirm reports by Cambodian guerrillas that they have seen two Americans in Cambodia and found the remains of two others reportedly killed in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The official, Garnett Bell, said he did not obtain the remains. He met in a Thai border town with two intermediaries apparently acting on behalf of the guerrillas, who said they had just returned from fighting Vietnamese troops in Cambodia. The guerrillas demanded money for the remains and for helping rescue the Americans, who they claim are living with Cambodian wives in northeastern Cambodia. The U.S. government does not purchase remains.
Vandals cut control cables to six Japan National Railways commuter lines during rush hour, halting trains and snarling traffic for thousands of commuters. Police blamed radical groups opposing a return of the deficit-ridden national railroad to private ownership. A railroad official said that cables were cut along tracks in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures, halting all travel on six lines in and out of the capital. It was the second such attack against the railroads in the past year. Last November 29, saboteurs cut railway cables in 34 places across Japan, paralyzing train routes to Tokyo and causing problems for about 6 million commuters.
The Government of Malaysia, which has enacted some of the world’s toughest anti-narcotics laws, is planning additional legislation that would allow officials to seize the assets of traffickers. The announcement of the impending legislation was made here Monday by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in an address to a meeting of United Nations narcotic experts. Dr. Mahathir, who said he hopes to introduce the proposed new laws in the session of Parliament beginning in October, said the Government intended to “leave the traffickers with nothing for those who survive them.”
Security agents have arrested three people for questioning in the attempted assassination of Chilean President Augusto Pinochet this month in which five of his bodyguards were killed, a prosecutor announced today. Joaquin Erlbaum, the military prosecutor handling the case, made the announcement but did not identify the suspects or say what role they were thought to have played in the attack. They were the first arrests reported in connection with the September 7 ambush of General Pinochet’s motorcade. The 70-year-old President, who is the army commander and head of the military junta that rules Chile, suffered minor cuts on his left hand in the attack.
Uganda reopened the Sudan border for food relief shipments to an estimated 2 million people facing starvation in southern Sudan, official Uganda radio said. The radio said that convoys carrying food to the famine-plagued south will be granted immediate passage to the largely rebel-held region but that once the food crosses the border, relief workers must negotiate with the rebels on distribution. Uganda closed the border August 26 to protest attacks on government troops in northern Uganda by dissidents who they said were given sanctuary in southern Sudan.
A White House spokesman said today that President Reagan intends to veto a bill imposing strict economic sanctions against South Africa, and that Administration officials were trying to gather support on Capitol Hill to sustain that veto. But Senator Richard G. Lugar, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee said the White House was making little headway and was facing almost certain defeat if it insisted on vetoing the bill. “The votes are there to override the veto and pass the legislation,” the Indiana Republican said at a breakfast meeting with reporters. The President has until Friday to sign or veto the South African measure, which passed both houses of Congress by overwhelming margins. When Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, was asked today whether Mr. Reagan intends to reject the bill, Mr. Speakes answered, “he does.”
Within the sometimes inscrutable world of South Africa’s white politics, this is the season when the nation’s elite consolidates itself for the new challenges ahead. Yet, when President P. W. Botha delivered what had been thought of as a major address to his followers the other day, his speech seemed more marked, some South African commentators said, by the gaps it left than by those it filled. His critics suggested that, whatever else the address was supposed to achieve, it left little for a confused white minority to be sure of. “Worst of all,” the English-language newspaper Business Day said in an editorial on Monday, Mr. Botha “has no discernible policy. He dismantles bits of apartheid, but does not know what to put in its place. He both loots and depresses the economy because he does not know what else to do. He tries to share power without sharing it, and to reform without reforming.”
Promising a veto, President Reagan sharply criticized the House of Representatives today for provisions on arms control it has added to bills involving funds for the military. Calling the provisions restrictive, he told a group of supporters at the White House, “If the defense budget arrives on my desk looking anything like that, I’ll veto it.” The military appropriation bill the President referred to will be included by Congress in an overall bill that will include all 13 appropriation bills for the Government for the fiscal year that begins October 1. Administration officials have said that if the House’s arms control provisions are included in this omnibus bill, the President will veto it.
President Reagan participates in a briefing on nuclear testing with a group of supporters of a strong U.S. defense.
President Reagan participates in a briefing on tax reform for members of the tax reform action coalition.
Former Education Secretary Terrel H. Bell called the failure of the high school class of 1986 to improve on predecessors’ Scholastic Aptitude Test scores “the worst news we’ve had in education in a long time.” “The entire nation ought to feel bad about it,” said Bell, now an education professor at the University of Utah. “What’s wrong with us? If you see how far down we’ve gone, we ought to be jumping up now.” Bell commissioned “A Nation at Risk,” the caustic 1983 report that is widely credited with sparking the national school reform movement. The 1 million seniors who completed the SAT in 1986 scored an average of 906 (431 verbal, 475 math) on the SAT scale of 400 to 1600-the same as the class of 1985.
Three out of four American adults think the problems facing children today are more severe than when they were growing up, said a national survey. The poll by the Louis Harris organization on the problems facing children found that 52% of adults perceive drug abuse as the most serious. A total of 1,254 adults were interviewed for the survey, which showed the majority believe a wide range of problems facing children, including hunger, kidnaping, sexual assault, parental abuse, suicide and prostitution, have grown in recent years.
Officials expect to decide today whether to provide a promising antiviral drug to more AIDS patients than they had originally planned. Federal officials and representatives of the Burroughs Wellcome Company, the manufacturer of the drug, azidothymidine, or ATZ, planned to discuss which AIDS patients who had suffered a form of pneumonia would have immediate access to the experimental drug. The meeting is being held at the health institutes in Bethesda, Md. Officials announced last Friday that AZT, an antiviral drug, had temporarily improved health and prolonged lives among a group of patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome and related disorders. They stressed, however, that it was not a cure.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is studying further regulatory responses to the explosion on Wall Street in computerized trading in stocks, stock index options and index futures, officials at the commission said today. They said the commission had been shaken by the force of the 120-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average on September 11 and September 12 and was prepared to consider more seriously complaints by investors that such activity was artificially driving down the value of stocks and other securities, and that restraints were needed. “We are looking at multiple alternatives,” the commission’s chairman, John S. R. Shad, said in an interview today. The measures under consideration include limiting the numbers of index options that an investor can hold at any one time, raising margin requirements and limiting short-selling activity. Some of these approaches have been recommended by experts on Wall Street, according to Richard G. Ketchum, director of the S.E.C.’s division of market regulation.
One of the nation’s most influential Roman Catholic bishops, Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee, has strongly questioned the Vatican’s efforts to impose a stricter orthodoxy on the American church by disciplining leaders who dissent. Without mentioning specific cases, the liberal Archbishop pointedly challenged the scope of the Vatican’s campaign of orthodoxy in two columns he wrote this month in the archdiocesan newspaper. It was the first time a leading American Bishop has criticized a series of Vatican actions such as those against Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen of Seattle, the Rev. Charles E. Curran and others. In columns in The Catholic Herald of Milwaukee, titled “The Price of Orthodoxy,” Archbishop Weakland asserts that in the pursuit of purity of doctrine there is a need “to avoid the fanaticism and small-mindedness that has characterized so many periods of the church in its history — tendencies that lead to much cruelty, suppression of theological creativity and lack of growth.”
Seven industrial solvents from a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan have polluted a river. They were carried along by Michigan’s record downpour two weeks ago. Officials said the solvents had possibly contaminated fish and other animal life in two rivers and the Saginaw Bay. As much as 30 million gallons of diluted chemicals from the Dow plant spilled into the Tittabawassee River, which winds through Midland and empties into the Saginaw River and Bay.
Law-enforcement officers with dogs and helicopters searched a Missouri farm town today for a former convict and mental patient accused of killing at least two people and wounding a policeman on a three-state crime spree. The authorities said the fugitive, Michael Wayne Jackson, streaked his face with silver paint and started his rampage by shooting his parole officer. They also said he might be linked to a third killing that occurred near where he was last seen outside Wright City, 45 miles west of St. Louis. The police in nearby St. Peters said Earl D. Finn, 47 years old, of O’Fallon, was first listed as a traffic fatality after his car veered off Interstate 70 and hit a pole about 6:48 P.M. Monday, but an autopsy revealed a shotgun wound to the head.
The Supreme Court granted stays today for two condemned killers scheduled to die in the electric chair Wednesday morning in what would have been the nation’s first double execution in more than a decade. The court entered the stays 12 ½ hours before Allen Davis, 42 years old, and Kenneth Hardwick, 37, were to have been executed in Florida’s electric chair at 7 A.M. Wednesday.
Two men ransacked a historic estate after tying up and gagging its caretaker in the fourth mansion break-in at the exclusive oceanside resort of Newport, Rhode Island, in two months. The robbery at the Malbone estate, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, occurred a month after police and several mansion dwellers boasted they had beefed up security in the wake of the other break-ins. Suspects have been charged in two of the three other robberies. The thieves at Malbone stole a videocassette recorder.
A judge today struck down an ordinance barring nonresidents from two parks in Dearborn but upheld the ordinance’s application to 35 other parks in the Detroit suburb. The judge, Marvin Stempien of the Wayne County Circuit Court, ruling on issues of state law, said the Dearborn ordinance was illegal in the case of two parks developed with state funds, because state law stipulates that they be open to the public. Judge Stempien said he would rule Monday on two constitutional challenges to the ordinance. Dearborn voters approved the ordinance banning nonresidents last fall. It was challenged by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and by the Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Dearborn, on Detroit’s border, is home mainly to European and Arab ethnic groups, with fewer than 100 black residents. Detroit’s population of 1.2 million is 63 percent black.
The parents of a 13-year-old girl who inspired a nationwide debate when she turned them in to the police pleaded not guilty today to charges of cocaine possession and asked for counseling. The District Attorney’s office supported the request by the couple, Bobby Dale Young, 49 years old, and Judith Ann Young, 37. Judge Manuel A. Ramirez of Municipal Court ordered the Orange County Probation Department to determine whether they are eligible for counseling, and ordered the couple back to court November 6. Should they successfully complete the counseling program, felony charges of possession of cocaine would be dropped, court officials said. Their daughter, Deanna, the focal point of the debate over whether children should report illegal drug use by their parents, was in school and did not appear in court with her parents. The family lives in Tustin, California.
The Library of Congress announced it will begin printing Playboy magazine in Braille again starting in January. U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan ordered the library to resume production and distribution in 1987 of Playboy editions in Braille, which contain articles and columns but no cartoons or photographs. The federal judge ruled on Aug. 29 that Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin violated the First Amendment when he stopped publication last year of Playboy Braille editions in a cost-cutting move.
Doctors have developed a new technique in which a laser is used to clear clogged arteries in the heart, a researcher said. The results of procedures completed on six patients look “very encouraging,” said Dr. Timothy Sanborn, associate director of the cardiovascular research laboratory at Boston University School of Medicine. The technique, known as laser thermal angioplasty, uses a tiny fiber optic thread to reach the blocked area.
The parents of a baby born with cerebral palsy and other disabilities filed a $100-million lawsuit claiming that the drug DES, used by the infant’s grandmother in 1954 to prevent a miscarriage, caused the birth defects. The suit against seven firms that made DES was filed by Stephanie Kanarek-Smith and David Smith, the parents of Amy Smith, in New York state Supreme Court. It is the first lawsuit claiming third-generation effects of DES use. It claims the drug caused the baby’s mother to be born with a uterine deformity that led to the infant’s physical impairments.
The House of Representatives voted today to make the rose America’s national flower. The Senate passed the rose resolution a year ago, and it now goes to President Reagan, who is expected to sign the bill. The House vote today, coming after the briefest of discussions and on a voice vote, completed Congressional action and crowned the rose as the “national floral emblem,” ending a debate that goes back to the late 19th century.
Major League Baseball:
Terry Kennedy drove in two runs with a pinch-hit single in the seventh inning to lead the San Diego Padres to a 5–2 win over the Braves in Atlanta. The Padres trailed by a run when John Kruk led off the seventh with a single against Jim Acker, 3–6. Kruk went to second one out later when Tim Pyznarski was hit by a pitch, and scored the tying run on a double by Randy Asadoor. One out later, Kennedy, pinch-hitting for reliever Greg Booker, 1–0, singled to right, scoring Pyznarski and Asadoor.
Cal Ripken jolted Dave Righetti out of his dream of perfection tonight with a game-tying, save-squandering home run in the ninth inning. Righetti, though, rebounded and helped the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles, 5–3, in 10 innings. “It was a heckuva shot,” Righetti said of Ripken’s towering home run into the left-field stands on his first pitch of the game, “one of the hardest hits I’ve ever given up.” Righetti, the No. 1 relief pitcher in the major leagues, had not failed in a save situation since July 1. He had succeeded in 24 successive games and raised his total saves to 41, four shy of the major league record.
The Cleveland Indians set back the California Angels, 5–2. Pat Tabler doubled home the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning as Cleveland defeated California behind Greg Swindell’s four-hitter. Mel Hall singled off Mike Witt, (18–9), and scored to break a 2–2 tie when Tabler doubled into the left-field corner. Swindell (4–1), walked two and struck out five in his first complete game. The left-hander, who was an all-American at the University of Texas, has won four straight since losing in his major league debut on August 22 to Boston, 24–5. The Angels began the night nine games ahead of second-place Texas in the American League West.
The Montreal Expos shelled the Chicago Cubs, 10–5. Dennis Martinez and Jim Wohlford hit two-run doubles and Andres Galarraga and Andre Dawson added two-run singles as part of a 18-hit attack, pacing Montreal. Randy St. Claire, 2–0, earned the victory with three innings of middle relief. Andy McGaffigan pitched the final three innings to earn his second save.
The Cincinnati Reds edged the San Francisco Giants, 6–5. Kurt Stillwell scored Ron Oester from second base on a single with two outs in the seventh inning to break a 2–2 tie. With one out in the Reds’ seventh, Oester doubled to left off Mark Davis (4–7). After Dave Concepcion struck out, Stillwell singled to left off Frank Williams to drive in the go-ahead run. Tom Browning (14–13) surrendered four hits and no earned runs in the first seven innings to get the victory. Ron Robinson pitched the final two innings for his 11th save. The Reds added three runs in the eighth. Eric Davis singled to open up the eighth inning, stole second and moved to third a throwing error by Bob Melvin, the catcher. Davis scored on Tony Perez’s double to center. Eddie Milner bunted for a single, moving a pinch-runner, Tracy Jones, to third. Max Venable doubled, scoring Jones and Milner for a 6–2 lead. San Francisco bounced back with three runs in the ninth. Will Clark singled to open the inning and, after Mike Aldrete struck out, Harry Spilman walked and Rick Lancellotti followed with his second homer of the year.
The Toronto Blue Jays downed the Detroit Tigers, 6–3. A home run by Jesse Barfield and a two-run double by Tony Fernandez sparked a four-run ninth inning as Toronto rallied. Mark Eichhorn (13–5) pitched three and one-third innings of two-hit relief, striking out six and walking one. Tom Henke pitched the ninth for his 24th save. Willie Hernandez (8–7), the fourth of five Detroit pitchers, was the loser. Toronto had just four hits and trailed by 3–2 when Barfield hit his 34th homer, off Eric King, a bases-empty drive into the upper deck in left-center. Hernandez came on and gave up a single to Ernie Whitt and an infield single to Damaso Garcia. Garth Iorg hit a two-out double to left, driving in Whitt with the go-ahead run and Fernandez doubled home Garcia and Iorg.
Houston’s Jim Deshaies strikes out the first 8 batters on the way to a 2-hit 4–0 win over the Dodgers. Deshaies breaks the Major League record of 7, last tied by Joe Cowley on May 28th. Pinch hitter Larry See ends the streak and the 3rd inning by popping out. Deshaies finishes with 10 strikeouts. In the fourth Steve Sax got the first hit of Deshaies, a single, to extend his hitting streak to 21 games, the league-high this season
The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Boston Red Sox, 8–5. Rick Manning hit a three-run homer and Paul Molitor went 3 for 4 with two runs batted in for the Brewers. Boston’s magic number to clinch its first division title in 11 years remained at three because the Yankees and Blue Jays, tied for second place, both won. Tim Leary (10–12) gave up eight hits and four runs in five innings for his first victory since August 12. Boston’s Wade Boggs, in a race for the league batting title with Don Mattingly of the Yankees, went 4 for 5 to raise his average to .3502. Mattingly went 1 for 5 at Baltimore to drop to .3497. Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd (15-10) failed in his attempt to become a 16-game winner for the first time in his career.
Gary Gaetti hit his 32nd and 33rd home runs and drove in a career-high six runs to lead Minnesota to a 9–2 triumph over the Kansas City Royals.
The afternoon seemed to follow a well-written script, just like so many other days and nights at Shea Stadium this season. The pitching was precise, the offense timely, the defense flawed but occasionally spectacular. The Mets won their division a week ago, but they are not easing up. “That’s the way we’ve been playing all year,” Darryl Strawberry said yesterday after the Mets had dispatched the St. Louis Cardinals, 9–1, for their 99th victory and a sweep of the two-game series. “We only had one letdown this year, and that was in Philadelphia when we had a chance to clinch and put too much pressure on ourselves. But when we go out there relaxed, it seems like everything falls into place.”
The Chicago White Sox bowed to the Oakland Athletics, 4–3. Mark McGwire hit a two-run single in the sixth and Oakland took advantage of three Chicago errors for another run in the inning as the A’s won their third straight game. Chicago committed five errors in the game and extended its losing streak to four games.
The Pittsburgh Pirates nipped the Philadelphia Phillies, 6–5. Barry Bonds hit a two-run homer to cap a three-run ninth inning that gave the Pittsburgh Pirates, who scored five runs in the last two innings, the victory. Bonds hit a 1–2 pitch from reliever Steve Bedrosian, 8-6, into the right-field seats.
Reuben Sierra hit a two-run homer, Steve Buechele added a solo shot and Darrell Porter scored three runs to lead Texas past Seattle by a score of 12–6.
San Diego Padres 5, Atlanta Braves 2
New York Yankees 5, Baltimore Orioles 3
Cleveland Indians 5, California Angels 2
Montreal Expos 10, Chicago Cubs 5
San Francisco Giants 5, Cincinnati Reds 6
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Detroit Tigers 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, Houston Astros 4
Boston Red Sox 5, Milwaukee Brewers 8
Kansas City Royals 2, Minnesota Twins 9
St. Louis Cardinals 1, New York Mets 9
Chicago White Sox 3, Oakland Athletics 4
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Texas Rangers 12, Seattle Mariners 6
The increase was not as impressive as Monday’s, but Wall Street managed to record its second consecutive gain yesterday as nervous investors became a little more aggressive. The Dow Jones industrial average, coming off a 30.80-point rise on Monday, inched up 4.36 points, to 1,797.81. The blue-chip index even managed, for the briefest of times, to pass the 1,800 level.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1797.81 (+4.36)
Born:
Chris Volstad, MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox), in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Matt Shaughnessy, NFL defensive end (Oakland Raiders, Arizona Cardinals), in Norwich, Connecticut.
Ryan Mouton, NFL defensive back (Tennessee Titans), in Houston, Texas.
Kaylee DeFer, American actress (“The War at Home”, “Gossip Girl”), in Tucson, Arizona.
Died:
Paddy Stone, 62, Canadian choreographer (“Piccadilly Palace”).
