Mikhail S. Gorbachev signaled a shift in the Soviet position on the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty in a letter to President Reagan last week, Administration officials said today. In the letter, according to the officials, the Soviet leader moved toward a possible compromise on the period for which the two sides would adhere to the ABM treaty, thus delaying deployment of the United States’ space-based missile defense program. The American officials said Mr. Gorbachev had proposed adherence for up to 15 more years. The previous Soviet position was 15 to 20 years. In Moscow, a First Deputy Foreign Minister, Yuli M. Vorontsov, said at a news conference that Mr. Reagan had been told by Mr. Gorbachev that the Soviet Union continued to insist on guaranteed observance of the ABM treaty terms for at least 15 years as part of a larger agreement to reduce long-range arms. President Reagan proposed in a letter to Mr. Gorbachev on July 25 that the two sides abide by the 1972 pact for seven and a half more years. Soviet officials had hinted that a commitment of less than 15 years might be acceptable, and some have reportedly told Americans that a period of 10 years might be considered. Mr. Gorbachev’s letter represents the first high-level indication that the Soviet Union would consider moving in the direction of the American proposal.
The United States and the Soviet Union are discussing a possible arrangement that would allow Nicholas S. Daniloff, an American journalist charged with espionage in Moscow, to return home, Administration officials said today. As part of the package, proposed by the American side, Gennadi F. Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations, who has been charged with spying in New York, would then be exchanged for several Soviet dissidents. Officials cautioned that the negotiations could be protracted. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said the issue had yet to be resolved. Bernard Kalb, the State Department spokesman, said he could not characterize the status of the talks, which have been held between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. Mr. Shultz briefed allied officials about the talks. One of them, Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti of Italy, told reporters, “I have the impression of a very slight step forward. I feel that at the end, the problem will be solved and negotiations to the summit will not be blocked.” President Reagan avoided public comment on the Daniloff case today. In Omaha, where he traveled from Detroit in support of Republican gubernatorial candidates, officials said the United States would continue to resist any deal that involves solely a direct Daniloff-Zakharov exchange.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev today hailed the Stockholm agreement on European security as a “major step” that paves the way for reducing international tension. He said it showed how detente must be built in the future. “This is a victory of common sense,” the Soviet leader said in a statement issued by the Tass press agency. “A major step has been made toward easing tension and improving the international political climate, which is so necessary for solving the vital problems of our nuclear age.”
The Reagan Administration has decided to permit Soviet scientific experts to investigate potential seismic montoring sites near the installation where the United States tests its nuclear weapons, officials disclosed today. But the Administration has said it will permit the visits only if two conditions were met. One condition is that the Soviet specialists must go in an official capacity as guests of the American Government. The other is that they must agree to President Reagan’s previous suggestion that they observe and measure a nuclear test at the test site in Nevada to learn more about verification techniques.
Charges that Austrian President Kurt Waldheim initialed anti-Jewish propaganda leaflets during World War II are “without foundation,” a Waldheim spokesman said in Vienna. World Jewish Congress investigators said they have found pamphlets in the U.S. National Archives bearing slogans such as, “Enough of the Jewish war, kill the Jews, come over.” The leaflets were to be dropped behind Soviet lines. The congress said that the leaflets, index and cover report were initialed by Waldheim on November 28, 1944. Waldheim served as an officer in the German army in World War II, but an Austrian spokesman said he lacked the authority to deal with such documents.
Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek warned that his country might withdraw from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization unless that organization carries out promised reforms. Van den Broek, in an address to the 41st U.N. General Assembly, said the Netherlands is seriously concerned “about the lack of progress UNESCO displays in implementing the reforms decided upon” at a meeting in Bulgaria last fall. The United States and Britain have already pulled out of UNESCO, saying it was badly managed and biased against the West.
As London’s brokers and banks plunge into a more competitive world of freewheeling markets, the 12-hour workday has become familiar to many. The traditional two-hour lunch has been replaced by the sandwich at the desk. And the aristocratic financial order may be breaking down. The change is a byproduct of the British Government’s market-opening drive that culminates October 27.
A clandestine organization in Lebanon kidnapped another French citizen. The group, believed to be made up of Muslim Shiite extremists who call themselves the Revolutionary Justice Organization, also claimed responsibility for the abduction of an American, Joseph James Cippio, 12 days ago. The Frenchman was identified as Marcel Coudry. The statement said he had been kidnapped in Christian East Beirut, but did not give the date of his capture.
Tamil guerrillas in Sri Lanka killed four soldiers and wounded 11 in separate attacks on a patrol and a district capital, the military reported today. Guerrillas attacked security troops patrolling a railroad line at Tampalagamam, about 160 miles northeast of Colombo, killing two soldiers and two policemen and wounding six others in the patrol, officials said. They said rebels exploded a mine a few hours later at the transport board office in the district capital of Batticaloa, about 140 miles east of Colombo, wounding five commandos.
For the last few months, South Korea’s political parties have tried to achieve something rare for this fractious country — agreement, through debate, on a new way to select the national leader. Compromise, however, has been a scarce commodity. The two sides are seriously deadlocked. As a result, politicians, intellectuals and foreign diplomats fear that South Korea may be heading down a familiar road of confrontation, with a threat of street disorders and Government crackdowns.
Saboteurs cut cables and communication lines of the Japan National Railways, disrupting train service during the morning rush hour and inconveniencing an estimated one million Tokyo commuters. It was the second such attack in the last year. Police ascribed the action to left-wing groups who are opposing the Government’s plan to break up the state-owned national railroads into six separate, privately owned companies. Last November, saboteurs knocked out key cables in Tokyo and Osaka, paralyzing service for about six million commuters.
A ninth round of talks aimed at improving relations between China and the Soviet Union will begin in Peking next month, the first formal discussions between the Communist powers since Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, called for better relations in July, Chinese officials said today. Relations between the two Communist countries have been tense since the early 1960’s over lingering historical, territorial and ideological disputes. Western diplomats say China maintains privately that it is willing to improve ties with Moscow, but blames the Kremlin for blocking progress. Obstacles are the Soviet military presence along China’s northern border, Moscow’s backing for the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia and Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
Three Taiwan exiles in Washington said today that they were forming a political party to oppose the Taiwan Government. Opposition political parties are banned in Taiwan. The three men said their group, the Taiwan Democratic Party, would press for democracy in Taiwan. “Our aim is to struggle, through open, peaceful and legal means, for the legitimate rights of the people to participate in national rebuilding,” said Hsu Hsin Liang, one of the founders of the new party. “The problems in Taiwan are serious and severe. People don’t have confidence in the government,” he said in a briefing at the National Press Club. Mr. Hsu, a founder of the banned opposition magazine Formosa, has lived in the United States since the Taiwan Government called for his arrest in 1979. He publishes two Taiwanese-language magazines in Los Angeles. Mr. Hsu communicates almost daily with opposition leaders working underground in Taiwan, according to Prof. F. T. Hsu, a Taiwanese familiar with the opposition movement but not related to Hsu Hsin Liang.
President Corazon C. Aquino of the Philippines returned from the United States today, saying that she had established personal rapport with President Reagan and warning against “holding our breath” for foreign economic help. “I am so happy to be home again,” she told a welcoming crowd of 300 people at the airport. “It was a long and exhausting trip.” Among welcoming officials were Vice President Salvador Laurel, Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and General Fidel Ramos, the Chief of Staff.
Mexico’s President Miguel de la Madrid, in a U.N. speech, indirectly criticized the United States for its support of contras fighting to overthrow the Nicaraguan government and for American cutbacks in financial backing for the United Nations. De la Madrid, without singling out Washington, said, “One state’s dissension with another’s political process does not justify, under any circumstances, the perpetration of acts beyond the bounds of international law.” De la Madrid also said that U.N. financial contributions “represent a juridical obligation that no one can repudiate unilaterally.” Congress has voted cuts of at least 20% in the U.S. assessed share of $210 million this year.
A State Department official criticized the Immigration and Naturalization Service over its policy toward immigration from Cuba. The official, Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, along with members of Congress speaking at a House subcommittee hearing, criticized delays in processing applications from released prisoners and members of their families.
Faced with a perception that he has lost ground politically, Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte says he will visit Washington next month to lobby members of Congress for support. “I am going to tell them that the aid given here has been well used,” he said in an interview at the presidential palace on Tuesday. He acknowledged that he faced political difficulties. The last year has seen a continuing war, economic stagnation, rising labor unrest and criticism from army commanders who are urged on by rightists.
The Senate voted to require the CIA to report on any involvement of Panama’s military forces in drug or arms trafficking or abuses of human rights. The directive was added to legislation authorizing the annual spending of intelligence agencies. The overall measure was passed on a voice vote and sent to a conference with the House, whose version contains no such provision. The House must concur before the directive can become law. The amendment was sponsored by Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina), who says the Panamanian armed forces are corrupt and abusive.
Chile’s security forces made about 80 more arrests in searching two slums of Santiago for the guerrillas who ambushed President Augusto Pinochet’s motorcade on September 7, the semiofficial news agency Orbe reported. About 90 people were arrested in previous raids. Under the state of siege imposed since the assassination attempt, the government said it is holding 27 opposition leaders in the capital, but it gave no figures on detainees elsewhere.
A United Nations official said today that Sudanese rebels had agreed not to fire on a plane carrying relief supplies as long as the plane stopped first at a town held by the rebels. The official, Bjarne Garden, who is information officer for the United Nations Emergency Operation in the Sudan, said that the condition was accepted and that organizers hoped to begin the 30-day airlift to the rebels’ town, Yirol, and on to Wau by the weekend.
A bomb exploded in Johannesburg at the home of a white official responsible for housing policies in Soweto township that have resulted in the eviction of protesting blacks who refuse to pay rents. Meanwhile, thousands of black miners gathered in a South African township to mourn 177 men killed in a gold-mining accident eight days ago.
Delegates of South Africa’s 800,000-member, mixed-race Dutch Reformed Church elected the Rev. Alan Boesak as president over incumbent Rev. Izak Mentor. Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, has been accused of subversion by South Africa’s government. During the synod in Cape Town, a motion was introduced proposing that Boesak cease his anti-apartheid activities or give up the church. Mentor, acting as chairman, said he agreed with the motion but ruled it unacceptable. Boesak said, “It is necessary for the church… to speak with a clear voice.”
Fashioning its own hodgepodge of budget “gimmickry,” the House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved a package intended to reduce the 1987 deficit by $15.1 billion. The package, approved by a vote of 309 to 106, includes the sale of Federal assets, bookkeeping maneuvers, revenue from improved enforcement of the tax laws and a new customs fee. It also imposes widespread, unselective spending cuts totaling $1 billion, half of which would come from the Pentagon’s budget. The legislation calls for about $2.9 billion in new spending, including expansion of Medicare and Medicaid coverage and increases in housing programs. The White House threatened a veto by President Reagan because of the new customs fee, several Medicare provisions, the housing provisions, what it sees as an excessive sale of loans from the Export-Import Bank and the cut in the Pentagon budget, which would trim a fixed percentage from each military program.
President Reagan called the Republican Party the “true party” of opportunity and the “party of all Americans.” The President made the assertions in Nebraska where he was campaigning on behalf of a woman running for Governor in that state and in Detroit where he urged support for a black running for Governor in Michigan.
President Reagan places a call to Steven McDonald, a New York City policeman who was shot in the head while in the line of duty.
President Reagan places a call to Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC).
What do you say when you’re called to the phone and President Reagan is on the line? “I think I said, ‘Hello, Mr. President.’ I’m not really sure. I was shaking so bad,” said Sara Horak of Delia, Kansas. Horak, 57, and a group of Kansans were in the office of Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas) when Reagan called. After speaking with the President for a few minutes, Dole motioned Horak to the phone and introduced her to Reagan. Horak said Reagan, who was aboard Air Force One en route to Omaha for a campaign appearance, talked about the weather and said his plane was “above the clouds… 31,000 feet in the air. He said to enjoy our visit and was very happy we were here.” The group planned to spend several more days touring the capital, including making a trip to the White House. But Horak said, “I will probably forget everything from here on out.”
On a vote of 385 to 25, the House passed a compromise higher education bill that tightens the requirements for financial aid while extending the help to part-time, non-traditional students. The bill, expected to win Senate approval, authorizes $10.2 billion in loans, grants and other aid programs for fiscal 1987. The measure provides $10 million for child-care services for disadvantaged students. It requires that, in order to remain eligible for student aid, a student must maintain a “C” average by the end of the second year or be in good academic standing.
The Senate today unanimously adopted legislation setting a ceiling of $64.8 billion over the next four years on Federal spending on highway, bridge and mass transit programs and allowing the states to raise the speed limit on some rural highways. The vote was 99 to 0. The Senate joined the House in rejecting broad changes in transportation financing sought by the Reagan Administration, particularly a proposal to combine highway and mass transit programs into single block grants. However, the Senate bill differs considerably from the House bill, which sets a ceiling of $90 billion over five years and contains no provision for increasing the speed limit.
House leaders moved to kill the general revenue-sharing program without a vote, quietly deleting the $3.4 billion for local governments from an omnibus spending bill scheduled for full House action today. The House Rules Committee, by voice vote and without debate, sent to the House floor a last-minute substitute for the pending $567-billion measure, deleting only the revenue-sharing money.
A Congressman approached the Pentagon and New York State officials in behalf of his brother, a military contractor. The official, Representative Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said his actions were intended to satisfy “the curiosity factor” about whether his brother would lose contracts. Military officials said Mr. Aspin’s actions were not illegal.
The Justice Department has decided to seek another delay in the sentencing of John A. Walker Jr. because of concern that the Navy veteran may have lied about his Soviet espionage ring, Reagan Administration officials said today. The sentencing of Mr. Walker and his son, Michael, who was a Navy seaman, had been scheduled for October 3. The two men pleaded guilty to espionage last year. The officials said the Justice Department would ask a Federal district judge in Baltimore, where the case has been prosecuted, for an additional delay while prosecutors study John Walker’s accounts of his espionage career.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it was banning use of the insecticide diazinon on golf courses and sod farms because it kills too many birds. The agency cited data linking diazinon to about 60 bird deaths involving 23 species in 18 states. Diazinon is used to control a variety of insects around commercial buildings, homes, nurseries and farms, as well as on golf courses and sod farms. The Interior Department’s Office of Endangered Species said that the Hawaiian goose and the Mohave tui chub could be put in jeopardy by continued use of the pesticide and that several other species could be hurt.
Arguments ended in a lawsuit over Tennessee’s textbooks brought by seven fundamentalist families, with one parent asking Christians to pray for the federal judge who has given himself 30 days to decide the case. “I encourage Christians everywhere to hold Judge (Thomas) Hull up in their prayers,” Vicki Frost said on the courthouse steps in Greeneville after closing arguments by attorneys for the families and the Hawkins County school board. Frost and 13 other parents have objected to the pacifist, magic, feminist and other anti-Christian themes they said they found in the 1983 Holt, Rinehart, Winston readers.
Missouri authorities said a fugitive sought in a three-state rampage of murder and abductions might have been wounded in a gunfight with policemen the night of the slayings. Four of six shots fired at Michael W. Jackson, 41, during a Monday night shoot-out hit the stolen car Jackson was in, Highway Patrol Lieutenant Paul H. Jones said. Two of the bullets that hit the car have not been found, and bloodstains were discovered on the steering wheel, he said.
Ten more police officers from the 77th Precinct in Brooklyn, New Year, have been implicated in an alleged scheme to extort money and drugs from narcotics dealers, officials said. The corruption case, which led to the suspension of 13 officers Tuesday, is limited to the 77th Precinct, police said. None of the 10 officers were suspended because “the evidence against them is not as strong as it is against the original 13,” police said.
The Chicago City Council, facing a budget deficit that Mayor Harold Washington said would force him to lay off 11,000 city workers, today approved an $80 million property tax increase. The tax measure was narrowly defeated earlier this month, prompting Mr. Washington to threaten the layoffs of 5,000 police officers as well as firemen, garbage collectors and other city employees. The Mayor’s political opponents had suggested that National Guard troops might have to be called in if he carried out the layoffs.
Parent groups and drug counselors are cautioning that marijuana, the nation’s most widely used illegal drug, is now two to seven times more potent than it was in the early 1970’s, and that a teen-ager’s first brush with it today may be a far more powerful experience than it was a generation ago. Their warnings and increased activism are directed in particular at the millions of Americans older than 30 who first tried marijuana as adolescents and who recall the experience as an illicit but relatively harmless rite of passage. Over the last decade, the domestic marijuana industry has succeeded in producing a more potent product, according to law-enforcement officials and Federal and New York State agencies. Although debate continues about how harmful the drug is — and how vigorously laws against it should be enforced — experts agree that teen-agers who use marijuana today are more likely to experience extreme highs from the drug and suffer its ill effects.
A Federal judge ruled that a longshoremen’s union that refused to handle ships carrying Russian-made goods in protest against the movement of Soviet troops into Afghanistan must pay more than $8 million in damages to a wood importer for losses incurred as a result of the boycott.
The Justice Department, frustrating the hopes of Detroit’s two newspapers for early approval of their request to merge some of their operations, extended the period for public comment on the proposal. In an order published Tuesday, the department said third parties could file comments until October 23.
A club for displaced New Yorkers will hold a party Friday at a suburban Atlanta hotel. Organizers of New Yorkers Network, are making preparations for 100 people who will pay $15 apiece to attend and join the club. The organization is evidence of the growing diversity of the Southeast’s largest metropolitan area.
An F2 tornado, unusually strong for one in California, touched down just southeast of Vina on this day and traveled two miles through an agricultural area. A mobile home was destroyed, injuring a 22-year-old occupant.
Waves have caused an estimated $7.6 million in erosion damage in Barrow, Alaska, and officials said they are concerned that wind-driven pack ice could pile onto shore and crush houses in the Arctic Ocean community. The ice is still about 150 miles offshore, farther than usual at this time of year. But the expanse of open water, which spawned high waves that washed away roads and undermined houses during the weekend, could become a speedway for giant, crushing blocks of ice.
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The New York Yankees held their “magic number” at three tonight and Dave Righetti lowered his to three. Righetti, who failed to hold a 3–2 ninth-inning lead 24 hours earlier, threw three pitches in the ninth tonight and secured the out he needed to preserve the Yankees’ 4–1 victory over Baltimore and gain his 42nd save. He needs three more saves in the Yankees’ final 10 games to tie the major league record of 45 shared by Dan Quisenberry and Bruce Sutter. The Yankees’ elimination number remained at three because they won and the first-place Boston Red Sox were rained out in Milwaukee. The earliest the Yankees can slip out of the American League East race is Saturday. It would take any combination of Yankee losses and Red Sox victories totaling three.
The Mets, the most talked-about team in baseball, came to play in front of their smallest crowd of the season, only 6,468 spectators. A sparse, uninspired crowd here today watched a rather uninspired performance by the Mets. They lost to the Cubs, 8–2, and afterward Gary Carter remarked, “It wasn’t exactly an uplifting day.” The Cubs thrashed the Mets, scoring once in the second inning, once in the fifth, five more times in the seventh and once in the eighth, piling up 15 hits. A little-known pitcher, Drew Hall, held the Mets to six hits and became the second rookie pitcher to gain his first major-league victory against the Mets in just four days. Marvin Freeman of the Phillies beat the Mets last Sunday. But through it all, even on a day like today, the Mets could draw some positive reinforcement.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the Atlanta Braves, 4–1. Max Venable hit his first homer in two years, a three-run shot, and Ted Power pitched four-hit ball for seven and two-thirds innings. Power (8–6) won his fourth straight game and raised his record to 4–1 in eight starts for the Reds this season. He had made 229 consecutive relief appearances since 1983. John Franco gave up a run in the ninth on singles by Bob Horner, Andres Thomas and Ozzie Virgil, but got his 25th save.
The Toronto Blue Jays topped the Detroit Tigers, 8–2. Tony Fernandez and Cecil Fielder hit home runs to highlight a six-run first inning for the Blue Jays. The victory put Toronto eight and a half games behind first-place Boston in the American League East. The Red Sox were rained out.
Nolan Ryan, the Houston Astros and a crowd of 37,611 fans ventured inside the Astrodome tonight expecting a celebration. Yet the one they experienced was not the one they envisioned. The Astros were not able to clinch their first divisional title in six years because the second-place Cincinnati Reds defeated the Atlanta Braves in Riverfront Stadium to stave off what appears to be their inevitable elimination. But Ryan, baseball’s career strikeout artist, lifted spirits here tonight with an inspiring eight-inning performance against the San Francisco Giants that brought his team to a victory — or a Reds’ defeat — from its goal. The 39-year-old pitcher struck out 12 batters and did not allow a hit until the seventh inning tonight in a commanding 6–0 victory that guaranteed the Astros at least a share of the National League West title. It marked the 162nd time during Ryan’s 19-year career, and the fourth time this season, that he has struck out 10 or more batters in a game. Ryan (11–8) holds the major-league record with five no-hitters. He lost his bid for No. 6 with one out in the seventh when Mike Aldrete, a rookie who was facing the pitcher for the first time in his career, lined a 1–0 pitch, a rare changeup, into center for a looping single.
The Kansas City Royals edged the Minnesota Twins, 2–1. Frank White hit a homer in the top of the ninth inning, the 46th surrendered this season by Minnesota’s Bert Blyleven to tie a record set 30 years ago by Robin Roberts with the Philadelphia Phillies. White’s homer, his 20th, gave him three of the nine hits allowed by Blyleven (15–14), who struck out 14 batters and walked none.
The Oakland Athletics downed the Chicago White Sox, 4–2. Alfredo Griffin of Oakland hit a two-run homer with two outs in the seventh inning as the A’s won their fourth straight game. Joe Cowley (11–10), who pitched a no-hitter for Chicago in his last outing against California, allowed only three hits over six and two-thirds innings, but all three were home runs. Dave Kingman hit an opposite-field shot for his 34th homer of the year, tying him with Jesse Barfield for the American League lead.
U.L. Washington singled home the tie-breaking run with two outs in the eighth inning to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 2–1 victory over the Montreal Expos. With one out, Barry Bonds drew a walk from Bob McClure, 2–4. Reliever Jeff Reardon got Tony Pena to ground into a force play, but Jim Morrison and Washington followed with singles. Don Robinson, 3–4, earned the victory with two innings of scoreless relief.
The Texas Rangers lost to the Seattle Mariners, 5–4. Ken Phelps drove in two runs with 24th homer and a sacrifice fly as the Seattle ended the Rangers’ three-game wining streak. The Mariner victory reduced rained out California’s magic number to three. Texas begins a three-game series with the Angels on Friday and also plays the final three games of the season at home against California.
Danny Cox pitched a seven-hitter and got home-run support from John Morris and Andy Van Slyke as St. Louis beat Philadelphia, 7–1. Cox, 11–12, struck out five and walked one in pitching his seventh complete game. The Cardinals got their first run in the first inning when Willie McGee walked, stole second and scored on a single by Tom Herr. Morris led off the second with his first major league homer. Then a throwing error by Phillies starter Kevin Gross, 11–12, gave the Cardinals two unearned runs.
The scheduled game between the Boston Red Sox and the Brewers at Milwaukee was postponed due to rain.
The scheduled game between the Cleveland Indians and the Angels at California was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
The scheduled game between the San Diego Padres and the Dodgers at Los Angeles was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
New York Yankees 4, Baltimore Orioles 1
New York Mets 2, Chicago Cubs 8
Atlanta Braves 1, Cincinnati Reds 4
Toronto Blue Jays 8, Detroit Tigers 2
San Francisco Giants 0, Houston Astros 6
Kansas City Royals 2, Minnesota Twins 1
Chicago White Sox 2, Oakland Athletics 4
Montreal Expos 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Texas Rangers 4, Seattle Mariners 5
Philadelphia Phillies 1, St. Louis Cardinals 7
A moderate increase in stock prices yesterday gave Wall Street its third consecutive gain, but trading volume remained weak and investor nervousness was evident in a sharp and unexplained selloff of some highly regarded technology stocks. Still, the Dow Jones industrial average managed a 5.48-point rise, to 1,803.29, closing above the 1,800 level for the first time in two weeks. But the Dow’s achievement did not come easily. Up 10 points early in the session on the strength of the bond market, the index fell back as the day wore on before finally getting back some of its forward momentum.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1803.29 (+5.48)
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Leah Dizon, American model, singer and Japanese television personality, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
