Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ByAlessandraStanley. Reported by Bernard Diederich and Dick Thompson/St. George...
Truckloads of his countrymen, not yet charged with crimes, have been taken from the interrogation camp up to Richmond Hill prison, where they are being held for eventual trial. Among the 60 imprisoned at Richmond Hill is Bernard Coard, 39, Bishop's erstwhile deputy and the apparent mastermind of last month's coup. Because authorities are keeping Coard incommunicado, his brother Robert, director of Boston's antipoverty agency, has hired former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to intervene. "I just don't want Bernard to be railroaded," Robert Coard said. "All I'm saying...
...Government has turned Bernard Coard into a poster boy. His photograph and those of fellow R.M.C. members, each defaced with a printed black X, are arrayed under a rather prejudicial pre-trial headline: "These criminals attempted to sell Grenada out to the Communists. Now they have surrendered." The posters were produced by the Army's 100-member "psychological operations" group; some have been ripped down by islanders. Although the "psy ops" tacticians have wisely avoided attacks on the late and locally lamented Prime Minister Bishop, their campaign may backfire anyway. A new broadside went up last weekend that struck...
...endless white corridors and advanced diagnostic equipment last year, shortly after the new medical complex opened, when the Soviet Union played host to more than 5,000 physicians from around the globe, who were attending the Ninth World Congress of Cardiology. Says one impressed visitor, Harvard Heart Specialist Bernard Lown: "It is a cardiology city." With pardonable pride, the center's director, Yevgeni Chazov, declares, "I don't think there's another institute in the world that has as many functions...
...women in both groups were alive and apparently healthy. Significantly, the study defied the longstanding dictum that anything short of a mastectomy increases the risk that cancer will recur. In fact, the incidence of tumor recurrence was the same in both groups: less than 5%. Said Dr. Bernard Fisher, chief breast cancer surgeon at the University of Pittsburgh: "This makes it awfully hard to justify the radical mastectomy...