The United States and the Soviet Union announced today that President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, will meet in Iceland next week. The announcement came after Gennadi F. Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations, pleaded no contest to a spying charge in a Brooklyn court and was released. The Soviet Union also agreed to let two dissidents emigrate — Yuri F. Orlov, who has been in Siberian exile, and his wife and fellow dissident, Irina L. Valitova, who lives in Moscow. The White House referred to the prospective two-day meeting, October 11 and 12 in Reykjavik, Iceland, as preliminary to a regular summit meeting in the United States that was agreed on in Geneva last November. The new summit meeting was supposed to be held this year, but a date has not been set. The agreement on the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Iceland was apparently a key element in the negotiations that led to the release of an American journalist, Nicholas S. Daniloff, and of Mr. Zakharov, both of whom were being held on espionage charges. The almost simultaneous announcement of the meeting by President Reagan, by the Soviet Government press agency Tass and by Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union underscored the appearance that the United States had agreed to the meeting as part of a resolution of the Daniloff-Zakharov cases.”The release of Daniloff made the meeting possible,” Mr. Reagan said in announcing it. “I could not have accepted and held that meeting if he was still being held.”
Icelanders are proud that their nation, where President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev will meet next week, is one of the world’s most isolated. President Vigdis Finnbogadottir once attributed Iceland’s rich cultural life and the preservation of its language, Old Norse, to centuries of being “so forgotten.”
The United States today freed Gennadi F. Zakharov, a convicted Soviet spy, one day after Nicholas S. Daniloff, an American journalist charged with espionage, was released from confinement in Moscow. Mr. Zakharov, saying “I am not a spy,” left Washington for Moscow this afternoon aboard an Aeroflot flight only an hour and a half before Mr. Daniloff arrived on a Pan American World Airways flight from Frankfurt, where he had charged that he was arrested a month ago to be a “hostage” for Mr. Zakharov’s release. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, disclosed the terms of the exchange. He said it made possible the announcement of the meeting in Iceland on October 11-12, and he disclosed that the Soviet Union had agreed to allow a former leader of the Soviet dissident movement, Yuri F. Orlov, and Irina L. Valitova, his wife, to leave the Soviet Union by October 7.
Gennadi F. Zakharov left Washington aboard a flight only half an hour before Nicholas S. Daniloff arrived on a jet from Frankfurt. Mr. Daniloff, an American journalist, had been released from confinement in Moscow Monday. He has charged he was arrested a month ago to be a “hostage” for Mr. Zakharov’s release.
Although some Republicans in Congress were critical, lawmakers from both parties today praised the agreement that led to the release of an American journalist from the Soviet Union and a Soviet spy suspect from the United States. Senator Richard G. Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, expressed the prevailing view when he said that it was a “reasonable solution” and that the meeting next week between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev was of foremost significance. “The talks continue,” said Senator Lugar, who is an Indiana Republican. “That is important.” The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, reflecting the position of the Democratic leadership, said, “I am happy they finally got things straightened out.” Those who were dissatisfied said the effect was to introduce equivalency into the situations of Nicholas S. Daniloff, a reporter for U.S. News & World Report, and of Gennadi F. Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations. Both faced espionage charges, but the United States contends that Mr. Daniloff was set up as a “hostage” to gain the release of Mr. Zakharov.
In terms of political barter, Mikhail S. Gorbachev got what he wanted out of the test of wills that came to be known as the Daniloff affair. He got his man home, he set a precedent that would make Western governments think twice about arresting Soviet spy suspects, and he could take credit for arranging a superpower meeting and so salvaging the East-West dialogue. He could tell his colleagues and critics that he had compelled President Reagan to treat the Soviet Union as an equal power, one that Washington could not push around and one with which he had to deal. Yet in the view of European diplomats in Moscow, the deal unveiled today was short of a clear-cut triumph for Mr. Gorbachev. If it confirmed the Soviet reputation for tough bargaining, it also projected the old image of a society ready to deal in hostages and dissidents to achieve political ends.
The Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, said today that Moscow planned a major retaliation against the United States if agreement was not reached on the American order to expel 25 staff members of the Soviet Mission to the United Nations. Speaking at a news conference at the Soviet Mission, he said he believed the two sides would find “a reasonable solution” when President Reagan and the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, meet in Iceland next week. In what appeared to be a concession, the United States will not require the Soviet side to meet an October 1 deadline for the expulsion, Mr. Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George P. Shultz announced at separate news conferences today. A final resolution of the expulsion order will be made after the Iceland meeting between the Soviet and American leaders, according to the two men.
The leadership of the outlawed Solidarity movement seriously challenged the Polish Government today by announcing the formation of a council composed of seven former fugitive leaders who are to work openly for the restoration of the union. At the same time, two longtime fugitives from the Solidarity underground turned up at a news conference to outline the new council and announced that they were taking advantage of an amnesty and resuming normal life. They added, however, that they left behind operating networks to which they could return if the Government responded to their gesture with repression or harassment. The emergence of the two men, Jan Litynski and Wiktor Kulerski, from their life on the run complemented the naming of the council by Lech Walesa, Solidarity’s chairman.
Three gunmen burst into the Vatican’s payroll office today in what the police said was the first armed robbery ever attempted at the Vatican, but they fled empty-handed when security agents rushed to the scene.
Mordechai Vanunu, who reveals details of Israel’s covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy. He was lured from Britain to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, where he was drugged and abducted. He was secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted in a trial that was held behind closed doors. Vanunu spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 in solitary confinement
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said he will submit his resignation on October 10 to allow for the scheduled transfer of power to Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Peres, in an address to a group of high school students, outlined the procedure for carrying out the power-sharing accord signed in 1984 between his left-of-center Labor Party and Shamir’s rightwing Likud Bloc. Peres is to become foreign minister under the plan. It was the first time Peres publicly specified the date that he will turn in his resignation to President Chaim Herzog. Under the agreement, he had until October 14 to resign.
Muslim and Christian soldiers battled across Beirut’s Green Line for three hours today, trapping several legislators in the Parliament building. No casualties were reported, but the state-run Lebanon radio said artillery shells and rockets struck residential quarters on both sides of the dividing line that separates the city into Christian and Muslim sectors. The fighting began at the Hippodrome, a horse-race track that straddles the Green Line. The track also serves as venue for sessions by the 10-man Cabinet discussing ways for ending the war. Several deputies who were in the Parliament building took shelter inside until a truce was arranged.
Iran claimed that its forces killed 100 Iraqi troops and wounded many more in an overnight attack on the central front of the Persian Gulf War. The official news agency IRNA said the Iranian forces overran two bases inside Iraqi territory in the Changule area, 20 miles southeast of the Iranian border town of Mehran. Iranian troops retook Mehran, 105 miles southeast of Baghdad, in July after it had been held by Iraq for six weeks. Iran also reported seizing several nearby hills inside Iraq earlier this month.
Two Soviet children and a guard were killed in an attack, apparently by Afghan rebels, on the Soviet Embassy in Kabul, Western diplomats said in Islamabad, Pakistan. Vsevolod S. Murakhovski, a first deputy chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers and head of a visiting trade delegation, narrowly escaped serious injury in the attack, one diplomat said. There were conflicting reports on whether a rocket or a bomb caused the explosion. Western journalists have been barred from Afghanistan since Soviet troops invaded in 1979.
Two decades after ending military sales to India, the United States is now poised to sell jet engines, radars and other high-technology equipment to the Government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for the country’s military modernization program. The United States has also indicated its willingness to sell technology for tank warfare and the testing of missiles, as well as sophisticated electronics and materials for combat airplanes, according to Indian and American officials. The move toward military cooperation with the United States marks a shift in India’s long-held view of Washington as an unreliable military supplier, although Indian officials also say it signals no change in New Delhi’s foreign policies. “My attitude is very simple,” said V.S. Arunachalam, science adviser to the Defense Ministry, “that is to get the best technology available for our needs at mutually acceptable terms.”
Prince Norodom Sihanouk head of an exiled coalition fighting to oust the Vietnamese from Cambodia, denounced Vietnam today for its “illegal occupation” of his country. The Prince, the first of 11 speakers today before the General Assembly, credited international support for the coalition fighting the Vietnamese-backed Government of Heng Samrin with preventing “more than 70,000 Vietnamese settlers” from making his country “vanish from the world map.” The Foreign Minister of Thailand, Siddhi Savetsila, also condemned Vietnam’s “illegal occupation.”
U.S. warships will visit China for the first time under an agreement between Peking and the Washington on port calls by ships capable of carrying nuclear weapons. A port call scheduled for May, 1985, was postponed after Peking complained over this issue. The agreement was announced by Defense Minister Zhang Aiping, who gave no details. He said that U.S. naval vessels could visit the East China Sea port of Qingdao as early as this month. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger is to visit China on October 7-11 to discuss defense ties between the two nations.
The Philippine military reported the arrest today of a top Communist leader, and a rebel spokesman demanded his release if cease-fire talks were to continue. A military spokesman said Rodolfo Salas, 38 years old, identified variously as the chairman of the outlawed Communist Party and as the commander of its armed forces, was captured Monday night with his wife and driver as he left a Manila hospital where he had gone for a medical check. The spokesman, Sylvestre Afable, said Mr. Salas was being held at a military camp in the Manila area. He had been sought for several years by the military, which has offered a $12,500 reward for his capture.
The Philippine Government reacted with disappointment and some bitterness today over the defeat in the United States Senate on Monday of a proposal for $200 million in increased economic aid for the Philippines. President Corazon C. Aquino was quoted by her press secretary, Teodoro Benigno, as having said she was disappointed at the defeat but understood that the majority of the Senate had its own priorities “and the Philippines is unfortunately not one of them.” The presidential spokesman, Rene Saguisag, warned that “we will remember those who were with us” when the agreement allowing two American bases comes up for renewal in 1991.
Canada’s Progressive Conservative government barely managed a split in two by-elections in the first test of voter reaction at the midpoint of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s mandate. The Conservative candidate was narrowly reelected in the Alberta district of Pembina, held by the party since 1972. In the Quebec district of St. Maurice, the Liberals easily retained their seat, limiting the Conservative candidate to only 20% of the vote. The outcome does not affect the huge Conservative majority in the 282-seat House of Commons. Standings after the by-elections were Conservatives 212, Liberals 40 and New Democrats 30.
Botswana celebrated 20 years of independence at a ceremony attended by President Reagan’s daughter Maureen, President Samora M. Machel of Mozambique, former Tanzanian President Julius K. Nyerere and other dignitaries. The African leaders also conferred on the issue of economic sanctions against South Africa, which Botswana does not support because the landlocked nation depends heavily on its neighbor for trade and transportation. The United States is giving $8 million in aid this year to Botswana, which has been plagued recently by drought and locusts.
President Reagan appointed Edward J. Perkins, a longtime black diplomat, as the new Ambassador to South Africa. Mr. Reagan sought to win Senate support for his veto of a bill to impose stringent sanctions against Pretoria, but Republican leaders said his campaign was making little headway.
The nation’s trade deficit shrank by $4.7 billion in August, the biggest one-month reduction on record, the Commerce Department reported today. The improvement, which was entirely due to a decline in imports, brought the August deficit to $13.3 billion. This was considerably better than most analysts had expected, and it prompted the Reagan Administration to suggest that the country’s most worrisome economic problem might finally be easing. In other economic reports issued by the Government today, the index of leading economic indicators fell two-tenths of 1 percent in August, implying several more months of weak economic growth. And sales of new homes fell 13.4 percent in August, the biggest drop in four years. “The decline in the dollar may be taking hold,” declared Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, generally one of the most restrained of Administration officials. “The sharp improvement from July to August may be the turning point in our trade deficit.”
President Reagan attends the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group.
A shutdown of Federal Government operations was averted today as the House and Senate approved a stopgap appropriation bill that extends financing of activities for eight days. Aides to President Reagan said he would sign the bill, preventing the Government from closing down Wednesday on the first day of the fiscal year 1987. The bill, which temporarily extends all activities at their 1986 levels, was approved 315 to 101 in the House and by a voice vote in the Senate. In another agreement, House and Senate negotiators today reached a compromise that gives the T-46A jet trainer, which is built on Long Island, a chance to survive.
Legislation to permanently extend a work-incentive program for disabled Supplemental Security Income recipients was approved by the House. Begun in 1981 and due to expire in June, the program would become a permanent fixture of the SSI program under the bill that was approved on a voice vote. Since 1981, 55,000 physically and mentally disabled people have participated in the program that allows recipients to continue getting Medicaid and reduced SSI benefits after they begin working.
One hundred thirty-nine people, including Carl Sagan, the Cornell astronomer, were arrested today at the nuclear test site in a protest against the nation’s continued underground testing of nuclear weapons in the face of a Soviet moratorium. While the demonstration was in progress, the Department of Energy set off the 10th underground test of the year, 50 miles away at the northern end of the test site. Those arrested were charged with criminal trespass, a misdemeanor, after they crossed security barricades in an act of civil disobedience. They were among more than 500 doctors, nurses, other public health professionals and others who gathered here to protest.
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger joined forces with Education Secretary William J. Bennett in a campaign to recruit military retirees for the nation’s classrooms. Both signed an agreement at the Department of Education pledging to cooperate in the drive to encourage former military personnel to consider a second career as teachers, principals and superintendents. Bennett said schools should relax “bureaucratic obstacles” to hire military retirees who lack paper credentials but who are well-versed in a subject.
The Air Force successfully tested the infrared guidance system on its anti-satellite missile during a flight over the Pacific off the California coast. The anti-satellite, or ASAT, weapon successfully “used the energy source of a distant star as the ‘target,” Pentagon statement said. The missile was fired from an F-15 jet fighter over the Western Test Range near Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Pentagon said. It was the fifth “live fire” test of the weapon in two years and the second in as many months.
The Challenger crew bantered about cold weather before the shuttle was launched on its disastrous mission January 28, but seemed to show no concern about their safety, according to a transcript of crew conversations. The transcript ended at the point at which previously released transcripts began.
Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen announced the establishment of a single national network to facilitate the transplanting of human organs. Bowen said that a $379,200 grant has been awarded to the United Network for Organ Sharing Inc. of Richmond, Virginia, to establish the network, which combines the United Network operation with that of the “24-ALERT” telephone service run by the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization in Pittsburgh. United Network keeps a nationwide recipient registry and computer matching system for kidney transplants.
Heterosexual links can spread AIDS but the chances are small that one act of heterosexual intercourse in the United States will spread the infection, research suggests. In contrast, heterosexual relations seem to play a major role in transmission of AIDS in Africa and Haiti.
The group eligible to receive AZT, the first drug to show promise against AIDS, has been broadened to include thousands more patients than originally indicated, the Burroughs Wellcome Company said. The company and Federal officials decided that those eligible to be treated with azidothymidine will include most of the 7,000 AIDS victims who have suffered a form of pneumonia.
The Texas Legislature today approved a temporary $872 million tax increase and companion spending cuts to offset a budget shortfall of $2.8 billion caused by slumping oil prices. The Senate adjourned after voting 25 to 5 to raise state sales and gasoline taxes and voting 29 to 1 for the spending-cut measure, clearing both for the signature of Governor Mark White.
Up to 600 flights in five states in the Midwest were delayed Monday, in part, because of a breakdown in an old computer at the country’s busiest air traffic control center near Chicago, the Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged today. Severe thunderstorms also contributed to the flight delays of up to three hours at several hundred airports in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa, said Mort Edelstein, a spokesman for the F.A.A. The computer breakdown, caused by “a quirk in the equipment,” forced air traffic controllers to obtain information about flight routes, speeds and altitudes manual methods, Mr. Edelstein said.
The police in Missouri today resumed searching on foot for Michael Wayne Jackson, starting from a trailer where the authorities believe the fugitive ate, changed clothes and shaved off his beard. Hal Helterhoff, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in St. Louis, said the police also were investigating the trailer and the immediate vicinity for footprints and would use dogs in attempts to pick up a trail. Mr. Jackson, 41 years old, a suspect in three killings, has not been seen since the night of September 22 when he fled on foot into a wooded area.
A Hare Krishna community has prompted opposition from many residents of Moundsville, West Virginia. Once they saw the Krishnas as a source of desperately needed jobs, but now they view the sect’s 5,000-acre estate accommodating 600 members as an institution that does not contribute to the region.
A new tranquilizer treats anxiety without causing drowsiness or interfering with a patient’s ability to work or drive, according to the Food and Drug Administration, which approved it. The agency said the drug, buspirone hydrochloride, must be prescribed by doctors.
Seoul has told the lobbying firm of Michael K. Deaver that it will not renew a $475,000 contract that expired yesterday, according to a South Korean official. The National Assembly has been scheduled to open a debate on the issue.
The longshoreman’s union struck ports along the east coast after failing to agree with shipping associations on a contract extension. The strike, which began at 12:01 AM, threatens to halt container ship operations at major ports today.
Former Florida state Rep. Steve Pajcic and former Tampa Mayor Bob Martinez won their party’s gubernatorial nominations in separate runoffs, setting up a November showdown to succeed Democratic Governor Bob Graham, who is challenging Republican incumbent Senator Paula Hawkins. Pajcic defeated Attorney General Jim Smith to win the Democratic nomination, and Martinez, a one-time Democrat, easily defeated former Rep. Lou Frey in the GOP runoff.
The United States Forest Service has approved a proposed uranium mine 13 miles south of the Grand Canyon despite opposition from an Indian tribe whose reservation is downstream. “This goes to show that money is more important to the Forest Service than our sacred religious land,” said Wayne Sinyella, chairman of the Havasupai Indian tribe. “We are not through fighting.” But Dennis Lund, recreation and lands staff manager for the Kaibab National Forest, said the uranium mining on land within the forest would not have any negative impact on the Havasupais.
Homeless activists said they were recruiting residents of New York City shelters and welfare hotels to march and stage sit-ins to demand better conditions. “We are going to turn ourselves into a weapon and use that weapon to get better housing,” Chris Sprowal, Philadelphia-based chief of the National Union of the Homeless, said at a news conference announcing formation of a New York branch of the group, which claims 10,000 members. Sprowal said job training and permanent housing are primary goals.
The undercover informant who helped the FBI crack municipal corruption cases in New York and Chicago was arrested for the dismemberment slaying of a wealthy Florida widow 11 years ago. Michael Raymond, 57, a convicted swindler, is accused of ordering the 1975 murder-at-sea of Adelaide Stiles, a newspaper columnist who was Raymond’s lover in the early 1970s. Fort Lauderdale police arrested Raymond in federal court in Nashville, where he had been sentenced on weapons charges in an unrelated case.
The Parking Violations Bureau was used for plunder by a small group of public officials and business executives, the United States Attorney in Manhattan, Rudolph W. Giuliani, told jurors. Mr. Giuliani opened the Government’s case against Stanley M. Friedman and four co-defendants in a major trial on corruption in New York City.
“This case is about greed,” a prosecutor, Stephen R. Bookin, said in opening arguments in the fraud trial of former Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan and eight co-defendants. Mr. Bookin said the nine men had plotted to steal a lot of money from an understaffed and inefficient New York City Transit Authority.
In a move reflecting soft demand for books and the sharp inroads made by discounters, the Dayton-Hudson Corporation said yesterday that it would sell B. Dalton, the nation’s second-largest chain of bookstores. With 777 outlets in 48 states, including 4 in New York City, B. Dalton had sales last year of $538 million, exceeded only by Waldenbooks at $565 million. But its earnings have slipped in recent years as it cut its margins to compete with discount stores, analysts said. And retail book sales have been flat generally this year, they added, because of the high prices of hardcover books and interest in new electronic products, particularly videotapes.
The U.S. performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
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Bob Horner drove in three runs with a double and a homer to lead Atlanta past Cincinnati, 8–7. Winner Rick Mahler, 14–17, gave up seven hits in 7 ⅔ innings before needing relief help. Gene Garber, the fourth Atlanta pitcher, gave up a sacrifice fly to Tony Perez and RBI double to Kurt Stillwell in the ninth before earning his 24th save. The Braves broke the game open with a four-run fifth that was highlighted by Horner’s two-run double.
The Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox, 6–3. Cal Ripken’s double drove in the tie-breaking run in a three-run 10th inning. John Stefero singled with one out against Bob Stanley (6–6). He went to second on a single by Juan Beniquez and scored on Ripken’s drive off the left-field wall. After Eddie Murray was walked intentionally, Mike Young hit a two-run single to center field. Rich Bordi (6–4) was the winner and Don Aase got his 34th save. Boston’s Wade Boggs went 4 for 4 with 2 doubles and 2 singles to raise his major-league leading batting average from .353 to .358. He left the game in the sixth inning.
The Chicago White Sox swept a twinbill from the Seattle Mariners, winning both games by identical 5–4 scores. Dave Valle’s passed ball in with two outs in the seventh allowed Steve Lyons to score from third base, helping Chicago to a triumph over the Seattle Mariners and a sweep of the twi-night doubleheader. Reid Nichols, who had tied the score in the ninth inning of the first game with a single, came through with two outs in the 10th with a bases-loaded single. Nichols also homered in the second game. In the second game, Lyons led off the seventh inning against Seattle starter Bill Swift, 2–9, with a single and was sacrificed to second by Ozzie Guillen. After Ron Hassey grounded out, moving Lyons to third, Valle had a fastball get away from him and Lyons scored. Reliever Ray Searage, 1–1, won his first game for the White Sox. Dave Schmidt, 3–6, who won the first game, earned his eighth save in the second game.
The California Angels downed the Kansas City Royals, 8–4. Wally Joyner drove in three runs and Reggie Jackson hit a two-run single as California scored five times in the sixth inning to break a three-game losing streak. Chuck Finley, 3-1, pitched 5 ⅔ shutout innings in relief of Roy Chadwick for the victory, allowing two hits.
The Milwaukee Brewers shut out the Detroit Tigers, 5–0. Tim Leary pitched a four-hit shutout and Rick Cerone and Paul Molitor each had two hits and scored a run as Milwaukee scored its sixth victory in seven games. Leary, 11–12, allowed just one hit after Darnell Coles doubled to lead off the second. Leary, a 27-year-old right-hander, retired 15 consecutive batters in the middle innings. He struck out five and walked two.
The Minnesota Twins outslugged the Cleveland Indians in ten innings, 10–9. Tom Brunansky’s two-run double with one-out in the bottom of the 10th capped a 20-hit Minnesota attack. Kent Hrbek led off the 10th with a single and, with one out, Roy Smalley singled. Brunansky then followed with his double up the left-center field alley.
The Mets played tonight as if they were somewhere else. “It seemed that we had the blues or something,” Wally Backman said after the 1–0 loss to the Expos. “It’s been so long since we clinched, our mind is on other things.” The game went along at a rapid pace — 2 hours 13 minutes — because the Mets could only get two hits off Bob Sebra, who pitched the entire game to end a three-game losing streak for the Expos. It was the first time since May 22 in San Francisco that the Mets were limited to two hits in a game, but no one seemed to notice in the dressing room except for Ron Darling, the starter and loser.
The Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays last night at Yankee Stadium, 5–2, and gained a lead of a game and a half over Toronto in the competition for second place in the American League East. The Yankees improved their record to 86–71, the first time this season they have been 15 games over .500. Dave Righetti got his 43d save in relief of Scott Nielsen, who worked into the seventh inning. Righetti is now two short of the major league save record.
Von Hayes homered twice, doubled and drove in five runs and Bruce Ruffin allowed eight hits as Philadelphia beat Chicago, 9–2. Hayes hit a homer in the first and a three-run home run in the third off loser Drew Hall, 1–2, and increased his league-leading run scored total to 106. The homers were his 18th and 19th of the season.
Reliever Ken Howell walked Kevin McReynolds with the bases loaded and Marvell Wynne followed with a three-run triple as the San Diego Padres scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to defeat Los Angeles, 11–8.
The San Francisco Giants edged the Houston Astros, 6–5. Candy Maldonado’s sacrifice fly scored Randy Kutcher in the ninth inning, giving San Francisco the victory. The victory went to left-hander Mark Davis, 5–7, who struck out five in three innings of hitless relief. Reliever Aurelio Lopez, 3–3, suffered the loss. After the Astros went ahead 5–1 in the sixth, the Giants rallied for three runs in the sixth, chasing Houston starter Bob Knepper, and tied the score at 5–5 in the seventh inning on Clark’s RBI single.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–3. Andy Van Slyke drove in three runs with a homer and a two-run single in a 3 for 3 night to spark St. Louis. Winner Danny Cox, 12–12, endured a rough start and retired the last 14 batters he faced. After permitting two runs and three hits in the first two innings, Cox allowed four hits and one run over the final seven innings to complete his sixth game in his last 10 starts.
Ruben Sierra’s three-run homer keyed a seven-run third inning and right-hander Kevin Brown won his major league debut as Texas beat Oakland, 9–5. Brown, 1–0, went five innings, allowed two runs on six hits, walked none and struck out four. Mike Loynd earned his first save, with four innings of two-hit relief, in his first appearance out of the bullpen this season. He struck out seven.
Cincinnati Reds 7, Atlanta Braves 8
Baltimore Orioles 6, Boston Red Sox 3
Seattle Mariners 4, Chicago White Sox 5
Seattle Mariners 4, Chicago White Sox 5
California Angels 8, Kansas City Royals 4
Detroit Tigers 0, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Cleveland Indians 9, Minnesota Twins 10
New York Mets 0, Montreal Expos 1
Toronto Blue Jays 2, New York Yankees 5
Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia Phillies 9
Los Angeles Dodgers 8, San Diego Padres 11
Houston Astros 5, San Francisco Giants 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Oakland Athletics 5, Texas Rangers 9
A decline in the nation’s trade deficit, along with a sign of weakness in the economy, helped Wall Street yesterday regain most of the loss it incurred in the previous session. Trading volume, however, remained depressed as investors, despite a drop in interest rates yesterday, continued to be uncertain as to the direction of borrowing costs over the longer haul. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 12.38 points, to 1,767.58. The blue-chip index had been up as many as 28 points during the session, following Monday’s 14.49 point drop.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1767.58 (+12.38)
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Cal O’Reilly, Canadian NHL centre (Nashville Predators, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, Buffalo Sabres, Minnesota Wild), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
James Hoyt, MLB pitcher (Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, Miami Marlins, Los Angeles Angels), in Boise, Idaho.
Edward Paredes, Dominican MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers), in Villa Riva, Dominican Republic.
Quinn Johnson, NFL fullback (NFL champions, Super Bowl 45-Packers, 2010; Green Bay Packers, Tennessee Titans), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Kyle McCarthy, NFL safety (Denver Broncos), in Youngstown, Ohio.
Jarron Gilbert, NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears, New York Jets), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Ben Lovett, British folk-rock musician and producer (Mumford & Sons), in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
