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...CHICAGO--Dwight Gooden pitched an eight-hitter on the way to his club-record eighth shutout of the season and added an RBI single as the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs, 3-0, yesterday...
...Rusk tells how, as an Army colonel in Washington in 1945, he faced the problem of dividing responsibility between Soviet and American troops in liberating Japanese-occupied Korea. Looking at a map, he saw no natural geographical boundaries, so he simply chose the 38th parallel. Richard Nixon remembers how Dwight Eisenhower never publicly criticized John Kennedy for the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, but privately "he used to grit his teeth (and say), 'You know, Dick, I would never have approved a plan without air cover...
...Free-for-All between the Dodgers and Angels. Cincinnati's Pete Rose was closing in on one of the game's most cherished records, Ty Cobb's standard of 4,191 base hits; as the weekend began, he needed only three more to break it. The young Met fireballer, Dwight Gooden, a 20-game winner at the age of 20, was prompting comparisons with the greatest pitchers of the past. But the drug disclosures could not help putting the game under a cloud. Not since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, when eight Chicago White Sox players admitted taking bribes...
...rare associates with nerve enough to bring the President bad news, returned from a recent lunch at the ranch apparently converted to the President's habitual optimism. Spencer brushed off forebodings that Reagan's second term might be slipping into the kind of doldrums that affected Dwight Eisenhower's last four years, starting in 1957. "Eisenhower was tired of being President," Spencer argued. "This guy loves it and works at it. He's a different cat, a different animal than other politicians." Indeed, Reagan is returning to Washington as a campaigner, stopping for a Labor Day rally in Independence...
...perhaps the greatest thing about the end of the strike is that all the fabulous seasons will not be lost. So Dwight Gooden can keep his winning streak going, Don Mattingly can drive in 150 runs, Vince Coleman can steal 100 bases as a rookie, and Wade Boggs can get 250 hits...