Word: bethesda
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...briefly left Quantico in 1973 to supervise jungle training in Okinawa. Once again, he never let up, working long hours and seven-day weeks. His wife was not with him, and toward the end of his tour, the strain seemed to trigger a depression. He voluntarily checked himself into Bethesda Naval Hospital for mental exhaustion and stayed three weeks. North has never spoken of the experience, and it was subsequently expunged from his record. When he was released, he was pronounced "fit for duty." North was helped through this trying period in his marriage by the works of Dr. James...
...Surgeons in England have demonstrated that the procedure can work well on CF patients. One woman there has survived for 20 months with a new heart and lungs. "She is living a reasonably normal life, working at a library," reports Biochemist Robert Beall of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Bethesda, Md. Before surgery, he says, the woman "had to be carried from bed to bathtub." Especially encouraging is the fact that the woman's new lungs have not been affected by cystic fibrosis...
...This is an important first step," said Dr. Robert Gallo, a leading AIDS researcher at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. "It's very noble that he did it on himself first." Yet Zagury dismissed any notion of heroism and seemed embarrassed by the attention. "If I began on myself," he told a reporter from France's Le Matin, "it is simply a question of a scientist's ethics...
...keep his activities under restraint. In May 1986, in a message titled "Be Cautious," Poindexter warned him that he was overreaching: "I am afraid you are letting your operational role become too public." McFarlane even suggested to Poindexter that North get out of the spotlight by going to Bethesda Naval Hospital for a disability review...
...hours of testimony, McFarlane strongly reiterated that Reagan had authorized the 1985 shipments -- at a meeting, ironically, in Bethesda Hospital, where the President was recuperating from his colon-cancer operation. McFarlane quoted the President as saying, "I want to get the hostages out. If the Israelis say we can do it, let's try." McFarlane added that Regan (who McFarlane believes is out to get him) was at the meeting...