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...chief of Bethesda's cardiothoracic surgery in 1983 and '84. He is charged with five counts of involuntary manslaughter resulting from technical foul-ups and poor judgment in the operating room. A five-page list detailing the charges specifies that Billig "wrongfully sewed" and tied blood vessels during bypass surgery, "improperly manipulated" heart tissue and, in one case, "tore" a woman's aorta and "improperly repaired" it. Also listed are 24 counts of dereliction of duty for performing unauthorized operations. If he is convicted on all counts, the surgeon, who was commissioned in December 1982, faces dismissal from the Navy...
...dead on arrival--are really saying, 'Brace yourself for a tax increase' . . . rest assured that any tax increase sent to me will be V.O.A.--veto on arrival." On a visit to St. Louis the next day, Reagan's motorcade pulled up to a side door of his hotel to bypass 150 angry farmers who oppose his budget priorities. Adding to their pain: some 75,000 letters from the Farmers Home Administration began going out last week to borrowers who have fallen behind on loan repayments, warning them to start catching up within 30 days if they hope to avoid eventual...
...blood and ultimately clog the arteries. In Lewis' case, the strictest low-fat diet and all the drugs that medicine could muster had failed to control the problem. By the time he was 47, his arteries were so blocked--a condition known as atherosclerosis--that he required quadruple-bypass surgery. Nine years later a double-bypass was performed. But in both instances the vessels that had been grafted around his heart became plugged with fatty plaque. When the second bypass failed, Lewis had run out of standard medical options. "I was in a dead-end situation," he recalls. "My doctor...
...open letter to Congress, Cornell President Frank Rhodes said, "Cornell University will not accept funding awards which bypass the normal review procedure...
...bypass question was raised last spring, Putnam said, but it was too late to implement any solution for this academic year. "It's one of the things at the top of this fall's agenda," said Putnam...