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Doctors removed the first lady's left breast and several lymph nodes from under her arm on Saturday in a 50-minute operation following a needle biopsy that revealed a quarter-inch malignant tumor. The first indication of the lesion came Oct. 5 during Mrs. Reagan's annual mammography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mrs. Reagan Treated for Breast Cancer | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...twelve-day flight are terrible. We are both strapped in so tightly we can hardly budge. Our every twitch is monitored by electrode caps on our heads. I tried to be good but after five days, I had had enough. Tugging about with my shoulders, I wrenched my left arm free of its restraint. I tore off my nameplate. I don't know why but I enjoyed it. I must have ripped off something else in the process, because now my food supply tube seems to be stuck. Fortunately, the juice dispenser still works. Barring a bumpy re-entry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Station, Can You Read Me? | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Tong blamed the plagiarism on her haste in preparing the speech and meeting the many demands on her time since she was chosen professor of the year in 1986 by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, an arm of the Carnegie Foundation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Professor Plagiarized | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

...reached the outskirts of Camp Aguinaldo we spotted a group of government soldiers outside the gates of the camp. One Filipino informed my friend in Tagalog, the local language, that the government forces had captured some of the rebels, identified by the inverted Filipino flag on the upper arm of their uniforms...

Author: By Eugene L. Jhong, | Title: Front-Row Seats at the Firefight | 9/30/1987 | See Source »

...would have a quiet hour with the candidate and find him an intelligent, well-intentioned man with pragmatic ideas and lofty ideals. But we don't know his fellow Democratic contenders -- Jim Brown, Buddy Roemer, Butch Baum, Tom Clausen, Speedy Long (and we do not wish to arm-wrestle the incumbent) -- or the lone Republican, Bob Livingston, so we are sticking with Sam, who said, "There are 4 1/2 million people in this state and if I can" -- here he put his palms together and moved them as you would to describe the course of a river -- ". . . well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: We Got the Hook in 'Em Now, Bubba | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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