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...strolled in the Rose Garden and frequently visited the third-floor solarium to bask in the sunshine and admire the tulips that had bloomed while he was in the hospital. He took penicillin orally to guard against infection of the lung pierced by the would-be assassin's bullet. But that was Reagan's only medication. The President's personal physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, found no need to conduct any extensive examinations on his twice daily visits. He merely performed brief checkups and asked the First Patient how he felt. "It sure hurts to get shot," Reagan...
Reagan's fellow victims were also on their separate roads to recovery. Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy left the hospital headed for a month's R. and R. in Acapulco. Washington Policeman Thomas Delahanty was not seriously wounded in the shooting. But surgeons last week removed a bullet from his neck, necessitating a longer hospital stay. Delahanty had his homecoming Saturday...
...gravely injured, was able to sit up and converse last week, doctors said, but may require a year to recuperate. His doctors hope that he will recover the "majority" of his mental capacity and 90% of his physical. But they worry about a "flattening" of his personality, since the bullet partly lobotomized Brady's brain. Said Dr. O'Leary: "It is possible he could walk with a cane. We do not," he added, "expect miracles...
...would with a knife, or make the strenuous and intimately dangerous effort required to kill with bare hands. The space between gun and victim somehow purifies the relationship - at least for the person at the trigger - and makes it so much easier to perform the deed. The bullet goes invisibly across space to flesh. An essential disconnection, almost an abstraction, is maintained. That's why it is so easy - convenient, really - to kill with one of the things...
...When I tried to talk with them, they said, 'Keep your mouth shut, or we'll put a bullet through your head,' " Dutch Passenger Hendrik Seisen, 34, recalled later. The five skyjackers were identified as members of the Komando Jihad, or Holy War Command, a shadowy group of Muslim extremists dedicated to Iran-style Islamic revolution in Indonesia. Nervously brandishing machine guns, grenades and dynamite, they demanded $1.5 million in ransom and asylum for themselves and the 80 militants imprisoned by the government of Indonesian President Suharto...