While General Wojciech Jaruzelski has welcomed recently released political prisoners to what he called “responsible” public life, the Polish Communist Party has called for the administrative detention, without trial, of dissidents deemed harmful by the authorities. These somewhat contradictory signals reflect a desire to navigate policy through the conflicting concerns of the authorities, supporters of Solidarity within Polish society, the Roman Catholic Church, Western creditors and the Warsaw Pact allies. For example, when the Government announced two weeks ago that it would free the remaining opposition figures, the move was applauded by Pope John Paul II and Western governments. But at a briefing on the amnesty for Soviet-bloc diplomats, aggressive questions were asked — some said notably by the Czechoslovaks and East Germans — about whether Poland was about to countenance a de facto opposition.
East Germany has increased the protection it provides to U.S. and other diplomats in East Berlin and reportedly has increased monitoring of the Libyan embassy there in an apparent effort to prevent terrorist incidents, Western diplomats said. East German authorities took the steps, probably with Soviet backing, after the Libyan mission, called a “people’s bureau,” was linked to the April 5 terrorist bombing of a discotheque in West Berlin. The East Germans were embarrassed by the publicity over the bombing, the diplomats said.
As part of a clampdown on immigration, West Germany intends to review its practice of not obliging refugees to return to the Soviet bloc, a Government minister has announced. The official, Wolfgang Schauble, who is Minister of the Chancellery, said some asylum-seekers from Communist countries might be treated similarly to those from the third world by being subject to expulsion. Poles and Hungarians, who can travel relatively freely, are believed to be the main focus of concern. Thousands of Poles are known to come to West Germany yearly, overstaying tourist visas or applying for political asylum; many earn hard currency and then return home.
After a three-week conference in Geneva, delegates from 55 nations have agreed to try to strengthen a 14-year-old treaty banning the production, storage and use of biological weapons. On Friday the conference, held to review the 1972 Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons Convention, adopted by consensus a 10-page declaration noting the difficulty of verifying compliance with the treaty and listing measures to reduce ambiguities in its provisions. The measures include exchanging information on research and abnormal outbreaks of infectious diseases, and promoting contacts between scientists involved in biological and genetic research. These provisions are to be discussed further at a two-week meeting scheduled to begin here in March.
A prisoner who made a spectacular escape by helicopter from a Paris penitentiary last spring was wounded and captured in a shootout while trying to rob a bank in the eastern part of the city, police said. Police said Michel Vaujour, 34, was identified from fingerprints and tattoos, but they did not say how seriously he was wounded. On May 26, Vaujour was plucked from the roof of La Sante prison by his wife, Nadine, who was flying a rented helicopter. It was Vaujour’s fourth escape since 1973. He was serving an 18-year sentence for armed robbery and the attempted murder of a policeman. An accomplice in the attempted bank heist was wounded.
France’s Socialist Party, eager to boost its opposition profile, is asking voters in the south, especially in the Toulouse region, to rebuff the right-wing government of Premier Jacques Chirac in National Assembly by-elections today. The vote, coming six months after the coalition led by Chirac swept the Socialists from power in March, will be the first important test at the ballot box for Chirac and his uneasy political link with Socialist President Francois Mitterrand.
Iosu Pascual, a 32-year-old town councilor in this Basque town near San Sebastian, said he was returning home one night when a group of men whom he could not identify seized him at his doorstep. He said they carried him off into the forested mountains nearby and, with a fine knife, crisscrossed his chest and legs with cuts. On a forearm they carved the initials G.A.L. The initials stand for Anti-Terrorist Groups of Liberation, a mysterious underground band that some officials in the Government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez privately admit appears linked to Spain’s national police force, the Civil Guard. Mr. Pascual is a sympathizer of the Basque separatist group known as E.T.A., and his scars, a year after the incident, appear to be another testament to a dark side of the Civil Guard’s fight against E.T.A.’s rising terrorism. E.T.A. has killed 32 people this year, almost all of them from the Civil Guard, the police and military, according to the Government. The underground groups are part of abuses that include beatings of suspected collaborators.
In the worst day of violence in the Lebanese capital this year, heavy street fighting broke out today between rival Lebanese factions in Christian East Beirut. It was followed by large-scale artillery exchanges. The Christians said their forces drove off a Syrian-sponsored attack from the Muslim side of the so-called Green Line that divides Beirut. The Christians said rockets and tanks had been used in the street battles. If the Christian claims are true, it would be the first time that a large-scale military thrust into East Beirut has been tried. Today’s violence had the makings of a revival of the civil war that has been waged intermittently in Lebanon for the last 11 years. Local radio reports said Christian units of the Lebanese Army loyal to President Amin Gemayel had joined Christian militiamen in driving back the attacks from the Muslim side. While there was much confusion about the fighting, radio stations in Muslim West Beirut said the confrontation was between Christian factions supporting and opposing Dr. Samir Geagea, the commander of the Christian militia called the Lebanese Forces. The police said hospitals in the Christian sector were “overflowing with casualties,” and they put the death toll on the Muslim side at five.
Morocco recently arrested a team of Palestinian terrorists who were preparing to bomb a synagogue in Casablanca on the Jewish New Year next weekend, according to Administration officials. The officials said neither the affiliations nor the goals of the team were known. They cautioned against linking the incident with any of a recent series of terrorist attacks against Jewish or Western targets. “We don’t know how this fits in, or whether it fits in at all,” an Administration official said.
The faltering effort to improve relations between India and Pakistan has been further damaged by the hijacking of an American jetliner in Karachi this month, according to diplomats. Last year it was promised that Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India would visit Pakistan in the first half of 1986 to advance the peace process. Now officials say the trip is on hold, pending resolution of several key differences between New Delhi and Islamabad.
A bomb exploded at an opposition political rally in Dacca, Bangladesh today, wounding at least 15 people, the police said. The police said the bomb might have been planted by rivals of the eight-party alliance that organized the rally to call for a united move to oust the President, Lieutenant General H. M. Ershad. The alliance leader, Sheik Hasina Wazed, said she suspected the bomb was thrown, with the encouragement of the Government, by followers of a retired colonel, Syed Faruk Rahman. The colonel, a candidate in the presidential election October 15, led a military coup in 1975 in which Mrs. Hasina’s father, Bangladesh’s first President, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, was killed. Mrs. Hasina’s alliance and a seven-party grouping headed by Begum Khaleda Zia plan to boycott the election because they say General Ershad will rig it.
Two American correspondents’ for the Asian Wall Street Journal were given three additional days to leave Malaysia after their paper was banned for three months and they were ordered out. John Berthelsen, 48, of Sacramento, has until Wednesday to leave Kuala Lumpur, where he is based, and Raphael Pura, 40, of King City, California, will have a similar period after he returns Monday from Hong Kong. The Malaysian Interior Ministry gave no reason for its three-month suspension.
Communist rebels, who rejected a Government cease-fire earlier this month, said today that they planned to offer President Corazon C. Aquino their own proposal for ending the fighting. The National Democratic Front, a Communist umbrella organization, said in a statement that this week it would offer the Government “a temporary nationwide cease-fire agreement of 30 days or longer with specific safeguards and complete mechanism for its implementation.” Joker Arroyo, one of Mrs. Aquino’s closest advisers, called the rebel offer “a welcome proposal” that “can save lives.” Mrs. Aquino’s spokesman, Teodoro Benigno, told reporters Friday that the President would not discuss the Communists’ demands for ending their 17-year-old insurgency until they agreed to stop fighting.
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra met today with the Roman Catholic Primate of Nicaragua, Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, to discuss the deep conflicts between the church and the Sandinista Government. No agreements were announced after the meeting, which was the first between the two in almost two years. But Mr. Ortega said the talks had been constructive and would continue at a lower level, beginning Tuesday. He said “concrete acts” might be forthcoming, but did not indicate what they might be.
Peru will devalue its currency early next year, the government announced, and teachers, bureaucrats and non-unionized workers in private industry will get an immediate pay raise. President Alan Garcia, according to news reports, said the government will not be able to continue to support the exchange rate for its currency after Dec. 31. Garcia also said he will ease price controls on many items and let their value be determined by supply and demand.
The Chilean military Government has authorized the Italian news agency ANSA to resume reporting from Chile after a 16-day suspension. It also released a prominent dissident who was detained two weeks ago after an attempt to assassinate General Augusto Pinochet, the President, on September 7. On Friday, Gen. Carlos Ojeda Vargas, commander of the Santiago military garrison, lifted the ban on the Italian news agency, which he imposed September 10 when he accused ANSA of spreading “biased and false information” about the Chilean situation. The charge was rejected by the agency’s chief correspondent in Chile, Giorgio Bagoni. Interior Minister Ricardo Garcia Rodriguez announced the release of a leading dissident and president of the moderate Socialist Party, Ricardo Lagos. Mr. Lagos still may not leave the country, because a military prosecutor has ordered him to stay in Chile during the investigation into the attempt to kill General Pinochet. The official said Mr. Lagos is not a suspect.
More than 320 tons of food were stockpiled at Khartoum airport ready for an emergency airlift to starving people in southern Sudan, which is racked by civil war. But the airlift was stalled because the government refused to give permission for it. Rebels in the south, who already have downed one civilian airliner over territory they control, have threatened to shoot down any relief flights that enter the area without their permission. Relief agencies say 2 million or 3 million people in southern Sudan are in danger of starvation because of the civil war and drought.
The West African nation of Togo was calm as troops guarded key government buildings after an unsuccessful attack on its pro-Western president, Gnassingbe Eyadema. About 150 French paratroopers were flown to the former French territory to help mop up resistance, but sources said they were not needed. Thirteen people were killed in the fighting last week.
Civil rights monitoring groups, former detainees and doctors who have examined detainees after their release assert that South Africa’s emergency decree has led to harsh conditions and sometimes torture for those held under its provisions. In interviews over a period of several weeks, former detainees have asserted that they were physically and psychologically abused in detention. Physicians who have examined former detainees say many display symptoms of the disorder known as post-traumatic stress syndrome. The Bureau for Information, the sole source of officially authorized news about South Africa’s state of emergency, offered no detailed reply when asked to comment on the assertions. In a telex message, it quoted the police as saying that “should any person be of the opinion that there is legal cause for complaint, an affidavit can be made available to the police” for investigation.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said today that President Reagan would be judged harshly by history for vetoing a bill for economic sanctions on South Africa. The South African Government has so far not reacted to Mr. Reagan’s action. Political commentators said praise for the action might make it harder for Mr. Reagan to win enough votes to sustain the veto. Archbishop Tutu said in a statement from his Cape Town residence that by vetoing the bill Friday, Mr. Reagan “has made his moral position quite clear.”
Ending one of the most tortuous legislative odysseys in years, the Senate gave final Congressional approval today to the most comprehensive changes in the Federal income tax system since World War II. The monumental legislation, which will affect the taxes owed by almost every household and business in the United States, now goes to the White House for President Reagan’s signature, which he promptly promised. Mr. Reagan gave enactment of what he calls tax reform the highest legislative priority of his second term. After two days of debate, the Senate approved the final measure by a vote of 74 to 23. The House adopted it Thursday, 292 to 136. Most of the changes will become effective January 1 and, for individuals, will be reflected in taxes due April 15, 1988.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on fiscal year 1987 appropriations bills. President Reagan today accused Congress of an inability to control Federal spending as he vowed anew to veto a spending bill to run the Government. In his weekly radio address, Mr. Reagan assailed the $562 billion spending bill the House approved by one vote Thursday to finance the Government in the 1987 fiscal year, which begins Wednesday. Mr. Reagan urged the Senate to remove “the most objectionable parts” from the legislation.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Courage” together.
Life in America is likely to change in hundreds of ways under the new tax law, shifting the way people spend, save, borrow and invest their money. While the basic fabric of American life will not be radically altered, analysts say, many adjustments are certain. Even though most people will end up with more cash in their pockets to do with as they please, they will lose many of the tax benefits that have for decades helped subsidize and encourage a long list of common expenditures. Some people may buy less expensive homes or forgo a vacation home because tax benefits will not provide as much of a subsidy for home ownership under a system of lower tax rates. Similarly, with rents expected to rise because of the curtailment of tax breaks for landlords, apartment dwellers may have to set their sights a bit lower unless they are willing to spend more.
The Senate tonight rejected an amendment that would have permitted the military to pursue and arrest drug smugglers trying to enter the country. The vote was 72 to 14 to shelve the amendment, after a number of speakers warned that delegating such a role to the military would amount to the “largest grant of power to the President in peacetime,” as Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, put it. The House already has adopted an even more wide-ranging provision directing the military to become involved in enforcing drug-trafficking laws. But the vote tonight indicated that the Senate would resist any provision in the final version of the drug legislation allowing the military to pursue and arrest smugglers.
The Department of Transportation, increasingly concerned about drug abuse in aviation, is quietly exploring ways to expand the drug testing of airline employees who are involved in flight operations. Industry experts who have been consulted say the department and its Federal Aviation Administration are considering a new rule to authorize tests of employees believed to be using drugs. Tests would also be administered routinely after accidents and as part of drug and alcohol treatment programs offered by many carriers. The proposals stop short of a provision in a Senate bill that would authorize tests on any flight safety employee regardless of whether there was cause to believe the employee was using drugs. Stephen D. Hayes, an F.A.A. spokesman, said the agency was not “actively working” on a proposed rule, but he added, “We are concerned about substance abuse in aviation and we are taking a look at a number of options in that regard.” Federal and industry experts say that while the problem is worrisome, it should not be exaggerated, in view of the small number of cases that have come to light.
The Justice Department is still fighting a citizens’ damage claim that was filed 10 years ago against five Federal agents whom a jury found in 1981 to have illegally wiretapped and harassed a group of Washington area blacks and Vietnam peace activists in the late 1960’s. At issue now are the amount of damages for which the defendants are to be personally assessed. But the Justice Department might have to pay that judgment because of a recent proposal by Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d. In 1981 the trial jury set the personal damage liabilities at a total of $711,000 for the five defendants, who were agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held this to be “excessive” and ordered the damages reassessed.
The Texas House approved $582 million in spending cuts and an $869.2 million temporary tax package to cope with the oil slump that has left Texas with a projected $2.8-billion deficit. Both must be approved by the Senate. The cuts would mean the loss of 1,981 state jobs, 1,460 of them in higher education, and would erase next year’s 3% state employee pay raise. The $869.2-million temporary tax package would raise the sales tax from 4.125% to 5.25% and add five cents to the 10-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax. House members voted 86 to 61 for the sales tax increase and 78 to 68 for the gasoline tax increase, both of which would take effect January 1 and expire August 31.
After a wave of summer shootings, Detroit today was observing “No Crime Day” at the urging of officials who had pleaded for residents to put away their pistols and refrain from crime for at least 24 hours. But, as an official parade was forming, a police officer responding to a call was killed early this afternoon. A police spokesman said the officer was shot and killed while “investigating a breaking and entering” on the city West’s Side, some distance from the parade site. At a news conference after the day’s activities, Mayor Coleman Young declined to discuss the shooting, saying, “I’m not going to mar this day with press and talks of gun control and who got shot.”
Rising water forced more evacuations along Montana’s Milk River Valley, as National Guardsmen and residents piled sandbags on flood-battered dikes and braced for a crest. Floodwaters that killed one person and hundreds of head of livestock have forced more than 100 evacuations and endangered farming communities along 150 miles of the river. The flooding was the worst in 34 years in northern Montana, and the National Weather Service predicted that high water would persist for up to a week. The Milk River was expected to peak about five feet above flood stage at Glasgow, a city of 4,500.
Brisk winds and overcast skies halted for the third day a test flight of the experimental plane Voyager, again delaying the pilots’ efforts to circumnavigate the Earth without refueling. Pilots Dick Rutan and Jeane Yeager had planned a dawn test flight to determine whether earlier overloading problems have been solved. “People who know about the weather have said the stuff hanging over us probably will be gone by Monday,” said Nell Rutan, sister of Dick Rutan. The pilots hope to circle the world in a nonstop, 12-day flight, starting early this week.
Ex-Marine Gino Casanova, a Vietnam veteran who fasted for 51 days last year on behalf of U.S. servicemen he believes are held in Southeast Asia, is fasting again in a bamboo cage near the White House, awaiting President Reagan’s response to four demands by the National Steering Committee for Live POW Activists. The group is demanding a meeting with Reagan, an official admission that POWS “are presently being held against their will,” the appointment of a special representative to take part in discussions between the United States and the communist governments of Southeast Asia and the appointment of H. Ross Perot to head an independent commission to determine an official course of action.
An Air Force general told reporters in Great Falls, Montana, that he is pleased with the progress of the radar-dodging Stealth fighter, a plane so secret it officially does not exist. “I’ve visited the factory. I’ve seen the airplane,” said General John T. Chain, commander of the Strategic Air Command, mentioning the Stealth by name at a news conference. Unlike the better-known Stealth bomber, the experimental fighter is a subject about which military officials have been close-mouthed. They imposed strict secrecy in July after the crash of what was believed to be a Stealth fighter near Bakersfield, California. The pilot was killed.
Bloodhounds aiding the search near Wright City, Missouri, for a former mental patient suspected in three killings in three states were called off after heavy rain washed away the scent. Authorities believe that Michael W. Jackson, 41, is wounded or dead after a shoot-out with police Monday. One of his shoes was flown to Missouri from Indianapolis, where he lived, to give the dogs his scent. Meanwhile, investigators lifted fingerprints at a farmhouse in Calwood, 35 miles west of Wright City, to determine whether Jackson was the prowler who slipped into the home and used a first-aid kit to treat a wound.
Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and his opponents within the Democratic Party have moved to a new level of political brinkmanship. The immediate issue in this latest in a series of municipal free-for-alls was the Mayor’s proposal to increase property taxes. But the confrontation, which lasted more than a week and ended with name-calling and with the police restraining angry City Council members before the Mayor got his tax increase Wednesday, was really a preparation for next February, when the Mayor and all 50 aldermen are up for election. When a previous vote on his proposal for a property tax increase failed, Mr. Washington said it was his responsibility to cover an impending budget deficit by saving money. He threatened to lay off 11,000 municipal employees, including 5,000 police officers and 2,000 firefighters. With the Mayor holding firm, layoff notices were prepared.
California has banned smoking by students at all its high schools, reversing a nine-year-old policy that had permitted the local authorities to decide whether the students could smoke. Legislation to prohibit students from smoking or otherwise using tobacco in schools, beginning in January, was signed Friday by Governor George Deukmejian. The legislation’s sponsor, Assemblyman William Filantine, a Republican, said his office had been getting many calls from students who said the move would violate their constitutional right to smoke. He said they also complained that they should not lose a privilege they had enjoyed for several years.
An ice dam formed by the advancing Hubbard Glacier near Yakutat, Alaska, was expected to fail today, and authorities said the break could allow seals and porpoises trapped in a fiord to escape. Yakutat residents would probably not be threatened. “No one knows what form the failure will take,” a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said. “It could be a sudden outburst and the sudden draining of Russell Lake, or the water could drain over several days.”
Moral concerns and family values are the basis of appeals to the voters by both Republicans and Democrats this year. As conservatives build on the inroads made with these issues in previous campaigns, many liberals are taking a similar “pro-family” tack, though their emphasis and concerns about concrete programs often differ.
“Give Me Wings” single is released by Michael Johnson (Billboard Song of the Year 1987).
Vinny Testaverde, the once-forgotten quarterback who considered leaving the University of Miami in search of a chance to play, today turned an angry confrontation of the two most highly ranked college football teams into his stage. Testaverde threw four touchdown passes in Miami’s surprisingly complete 28–16 victory over top-ranked Oklahoma before a crowd of 71,451 at the Orange Bowl. He completed 21 of 28 passes — including 14 in a row — for 261 yards as the offensive line of the Hurricanes (4–0) consistently provided its quarterback with more than enough time. “Testaverde is the best quarterback we’ve played against,” said Barry Switzer, the Oklahoma coach. “His understanding of the game, his ability to scramble, he’s just a guy that makes things happen. He’s the biggest, tallest quarterback I’ve ever seen who can move.”
Major League Baseball:
The Houston Astros shut out the host Atlanta Braves, 4–0. Danny Darwin scattered six hits over seven innings and Craig Reynolds batted in three runs with two singles for Houston. Darwin (4–2) struck out seven and walked none. Larry Andersen and Charlie Kerfeld pitched the final two innings.
The shouts of joy and excitement in the Red Sox clubhouse seemed appropriate, coming, as they did, right after Boston had beaten Toronto, 2–0, today to assure itself of at least a tie for its first American League East title in 11 years. Yet there was something strange going on. The exclamations came from just one area of the clubhouse, the one in front of the television set. No, the players weren’t watching a replay of Bruce Hurst’s game-ending strikeout of Jesse Barfield or of the homer by Dwight Evans that broke a scoreless tie in the fifth inning. Nor were they tuned to a sports show reporting that the Boston victory and a Yankee loss to Detroit had eliminated the rivals from New York. They were cheering the Miami-Oklahoma college football game. This afternoon, it appeared for half a game that the Red Sox might suffer their second shutout in less than 24 hours. They lost to Toronto, 1–0, in 12 innings Friday night, and Jim Clancy of the Blue Jays set down in order the first 14 Boston batters he faced today. Then with two out in the fifth inning, Evans broke up the perfect game effort with a high fly ball that cleared the tall green fence in left field in Fenway Park. It was the 26th homer of the year for Evans and it gave the Red Sox a 1–0 lead. In the seventh, Don Baylor, the Yankee who strayed, singled home Marty Barrett with the game’s other run.
The Texas Rangers nipped the California Angels, 1–0. Charlie Hough pitched 6 ⅓ hitless innings before finishing with a two-hitter and Larry Parrish hit a fourth-inning homer as the Texas Rangers beat the California Angels. Hough did not allow a runner until the sixth inning and did not allow a hit until Ruppert Jones, one of two regulars in the California lineup, singled with one out in the seventh. Hough, 16–10, issued four walks — three of them in the sixth — and struck out six.
The Chicago White Sox swept their twinbill with the Minnesota Twins, winning 5–2 and 4–3. Ozzie Guillen’s two-out single in the ninth inning scored pinch runner Daryl Boston from third to lead the White Sox to a sweep of the doubleheader with the Twins. Jerry Hairston homered in both games, and Jose DeLeon, 4–5, pitched a three-hitter as the White Sox won the opener.
Bruce Bochte’s bases-loaded walk in the sixth inning broke a 5–5 tie, and Oakland held on to defeat the Kansas City Royals 9–6 for the A’s fourth double-header sweep of the season. Joaquin Andujar allowed eight hits, and Mike Gallego drove in three runs as the A’s won the opener, 6–3. Oakland has won seven of its last 10 games; the Royals have lost nine of 12.
The Baltimore Orioles blanked the Milwaukee Brewers, 7–0. Lefthander Scott McGregor pitched a two-hitter, at one point retiring 24 in a row, as the Baltimore Orioles snapped a six-game losing streak, against the Milwaukee Brewers. McGregor, 11–14, who struck out three, pitched his second shutout in his fourth complete game of the season.
The Philadelphia Phillies nipped the Montreal Expos, 1–0. Mike Schmidt drove in Philadelphia’s run with a double for one of only two hits off Floyd Youmans. Don Carman (10–5) and two relievers combined on a six-hit shutout. Youmans (13–11), who pitched his fifth complete game, struck out a career-high 15, tops in the National League this year, and walked seven as he lost his third 1–0 game of the season. Besides Schmidt’s fourth-inning double, Youmans allowed a single to Glenn Wilson in the ninth. Philadelphia scored the only run of the game when Von Hayes led off the fourth with a walk. Schmidt then hit his double to right-center to score Hayes.
Larry Herndon doubled home Lou Whitaker from second base in the 10th, lifting the Detroit Tigers to a 1–0 victory over the New York Yankees. Jack Morris shut out the Yankees in 10 innings, raising his record to 20–8 and snapping Don Mattingly’s hitting streak at 24 consecutive games. The chase ended yesterday. So did the hitting streak. So now, it’s official. The Yankees, who had come to accept the inevitable, were finally eliminated from the American League East race. Today, it can all belong to Boston. But the Yanks’ 10-inning loss to the Detroit Tigers had a subplot: Don Mattingly came to the plate four times, failed to get a hit and saw his 24-game hitting streak reach its conclusion.
For the first time in his professional career, Dwight Gooden was hit by a pitch in what he firmly believed was a retaliatory gesture by Bob Kipper, Pittsburgh’s starting pitcher. “I think it was positively lousy to do it,” Gooden said tonight after the Mets topped the Pirates, 4–2, on two 11th-inning runs produced by an error. “I started to go out there, but I have something to look forward to. You can get hurt out there. I didn’t want to take a chance on getting hurt. But we’re about the same age. We’ll meet again; we’ll have a couple more outings together.” Asked if he had a good memory, Gooden said, “Yeah, especially with something like that.” Gooden and Kipper could face each other when the teams play in New York next Friday night. Kipper hit Gooden in the seventh inning. Four innings earlier, Gooden hit Barry Bonds, the Pirates’ rookie center fielder, on the right thigh. “I guess he was trying to come back for Bonds,” Gooden said. “But Bonds had two strikes on him and he can run. It would be pretty stupid for me to hit him.” Len Dykstra’s run-scoring double in the fifth tied the game, 2–2, and the Mets won it in the 11th after Gary Carter and Darryl Strawberry singled with no one out. Ray Knight sacrificed the runners to third and second, and Barry Jones, the Pirates’ fourth pitcher, walked Wally Backman purposely. Danny Heep, a pinch-hitter, then hit a high bouncer that Jones fielded about 10 feet from home plate. He continued to the plate and tagged the sliding Howard Johnson, who was running for Carter, but Johnson knocked the ball out of Jones’s glove with his elbow. The ball rolled toward the stands, and Johnson and Strawberry scored on the pitcher’s error.
The Cincinnati Reds downed the San Diego Padres, 7–4. Eddie Milner hit two home runs, and Buddy Bell hit a three-run homer in the 11th inning to help the Cincinnati Reds extend their winning streak to five games. With the score tied 4–4 in the 11th, reliever Lance McCullers, 10–10, walked pinch-hitter Kal Daniels to lead off. Eric Davis, pinch running for Daniels, stole second and was sacrificed to third. After Max Venable popped out, Dave Parker was intentionally walked, bringing up Bell, who hit a 3–0 pitch into the left field seats for his 19th homer of the year, a career high. The Padres’ Tony Gwynn had one hit in five at bats to make his average .330, tied with Steve Sax of Los Angeles behind Tim Raines of Montreal at .337.
The Cleveland Indians hammered the Seattle Mariners, 12–4. Ken Schrom allowed six hits over eight innings to better his record to 10–0 against the American League West this season, and the Cleveland Indians had 18 hits. Schrom, 14–7, struck out seven and walked none in defeating Seattle for the third time this season. Rich! Yett pitched the ninth inning.
At Candlestick, Vida Blue (10–10) and Fernando Valenzuela (20–11) each go 5 innings as the Giants do all their scoring off the Dodgers starter to win, 8–3. Bob Melvin and Chili Davis hit home runs for the San Francisco Giants, backing Vida Blue to his first victory since August 12. Melvin’s homer broke a 2–2 tie leading off the Giants’ second inning. Davis hit a two-run pinch-homer in a four-run fifth inning. Steve Sax is 3-for–3 to run his batting streak to 25 games.
The Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5–3. Ryne Sandberg hit a two-run triple in the 10th inning and scored on a single by Bob Dernier, powering a four-run inning to lead Chicago. With one out in the 10th, Thad Bosley, a pinch-hitter, doubled to right off Ray Soff (4–1). Chico Walker grounded to Andy Van Slyke, the first baseman, but Soff missed the bag with his foot. Walker was safe on the error and Bosley moved to third. Sandberg then drove his triple to right-center field. Dernier, pinch-hitting, greeted Pat Perry with a run-scoring single. Dernier later scored on Brian Dayette’s sacrifice fly.
Houston Astros 4, Atlanta Braves 0
Toronto Blue Jays 0, Boston Red Sox 2
Texas Rangers 1, California Angels 0
Minnesota Twins 2, Chicago White Sox 5
Minnesota Twins 3, Chicago White Sox 4
Oakland Athletics 6, Kansas City Royals 3
Oakland Athletics 9, Kansas City Royals 6
Baltimore Orioles 7, Milwaukee Brewers 0
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Montreal Expos 0
Detroit Tigers 1, New York Yankees 0
New York Mets 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Cincinnati Reds 7, San Diego Padres 4
Cleveland Indians 12, Seattle Mariners 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, San Francisco Giants 8
Chicago Cubs 5, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Born:
Matt Shoemaker, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins), in Wyandotte, Michigan.
Vin Mazzaro, MLB pitcher (Oakland A’s, Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Miami Marlins, San Francisco Giants), in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Jeff Cowan, Canadian NHL left wing (Calgary Flames, Atlanta Thrashers, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks), in Scarborough, Ontario.
Blair Jones, Canadian NHL centre (Tampa Bay Lightning, Calgary Flames, Philadelphia Flyers), in Central Butte, Saskatchewan.
Ross Ventrone, NFL safety (New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Cliff Burton, 24, American rock bassist (Metallica), in a bus crash.
