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DIED. Boleslaw Piasecki, 63, Polish Communist official and chairman of the progovernment Roman Catholic organization called PAX; of a thrombotic ailment, Buerger's disease; in Warsaw. Jailed by the Soviets in 1944, he reportedly bartered for his freedom by agreeing to establish an association of "patriotic" Catholics. Founded in 1945, PAX was scorned by many Polish Catholics (including the present Pope) as a tool of the regime designed to split the church. Its influence began to wane in the early 1960s as Warsaw and Rome started seeking an accommodation. In 1971, Piasecki was appointed a member...
When the White House forthrightly announced that Jimmy Carter was in severe pain from a bad case of hemorrhoids and that surgery was being considered, inevitably there were some jokes. It is not an ailment an individual elects to advertise unless, like Carter, he must in order to cancel a day's schedule without giving the stock market a heart attack. There was also a great deal of sympathy, tacit and expressed. Wrote one Egyptian: "May Allah cure you. This illness should have been inflicted on an unjust leader rather than you, O Carter...
...some symptoms temporarily. So can hot baths and a change in diet and bowel habits. But doctors emphasize that whenever rectal bleeding occurs, there should be a prompt proctological examination; while hemorrhoids themselves are not life-threatening, such bleeding may be a sign of cancer or some other serious ailment. Happily, most hemorrhoid complaints can now be treated simply and almost painlessly in the doctor's office...
...free on $100,000 bail, Dederich remains hospitalized. His attorney, Thomas Thinnes, argued that Dederich was "in no condition to return to California because he needs medical attention." Thinnes says that he has been told by doctors that the Synanon founder has a drinking problem, suffers from a heart ailment and obesity and is in a deep depression. Last week Dederich's wife Regina and daughter Cecelia Jason filed a petition in Mohave County Superior Court stating that he is an "incapacitated person" and asking for guardianship...
...drive the 65 miles from his parents' farm to the medical center in Columbia several times a week. There he would be hooked up for hours at a stretch to a kidney machine that would purge his body of poisonous wastes. Yet, in spite of his life-threatening ailment, Morgan continues to lead an active life, helping his father run the farm. Sometimes he even does such strenuous chores as chopping wood, herding cattle and baling...