Word: bypass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silence that had shielded top apartheid-era leaders finally cracked. The five officers, including a police brigadier who had commanded a hit-squad training camp, claimed they took orders from the State Security Council, a secret junta of military, police and government officials whose sweeping powers enabled it to bypass Parliament. The council was headed by Botha. The officers said Botha also knew about a secret security cell known as the Counter Revolutionary Information Center, which drew up lists of people and places to be attacked, both inside and outside South Africa. Brigadier Jack Cronje testified that police kept files...
RECOVERING. EARL SCRUGGS, 72, bluegrass banjo master; from a bypass operation; in Nashville, Tennessee...
...recent heart attack and death from heart disease by 24 percent in post-heart attack patients with average cholesterol levels, according to the study which was printed in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. In addition, there were similar reductions in the need for coronary artery bypass surgery and coronary angioplasty...
...These results are particularly compelling because patients enrolled in CARE already were benefiting from optimal post-heart attack treatments such as aspirin, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty," Pfeffer said...
With any luck, advisers to Russian President Boris Yeltsin stoically insist, the political paralysis that has gripped Russia since his re-election last July will be over by Christmas: Yeltsin will be back at work after a successful heart-bypass operation, and the country will resume its shamble toward what ordinary Russians wistfully call political "normality." Few believe this will happen, though. Most people, including presidential intimates and senior government officials, suspect that Yeltsin is seriously ill, will require much more than a bypass and may not survive. Last week his prospective surgeon, Renat Akchurin, revealed in press interviews that...