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...designed to strengthen his lower and middle back after injuries suffered last summer when his vehicle slammed into a wall at 185 m.p.h. in the Poconos. The punishing session included 20 minutes of fast pedaling on an exercise cycle, 60 sit-ups with a 20-lb. dumbbell across his chest, some stretching, alternate elbow-to-knee and leg raises, and lifting weights. "I don't come here for the body building, I come here for the fun," Sullivan joked. But Isaacson did not let up on the pressure as he and Sullivan went on to more stretching exercises...
...interrogation of the one of two hijackers who survived. One of the men was identified by Maltese authorities as Omar Marzouki, a 20-year-old Tunisian. At week's end Marzouki was known to be at a hospital in Valletta, recovering from gunshot wounds in the chest and abdomen, and could not be questioned. Although he was under heavy guard, Egyptian security officials feared he might be targeted for assassination by his mysterious mentors. In the meantime the Egyptians requested his extradition, a move that they expected Malta to honor...
...year has passed since William Schroeder awoke in Louisville to the sounds of an artificial heart thumping away in his chest. The promise of that day has almost vanished. All but gone is the man who impressed the world with his spunk--teasing his doctors just days after surgery, asking for beer, talking forthrightly with President Reagan by phone and bullishly announcing to the world, "I feel like I've got ten years left." Three strokes, one suffered in mid-November, have left the once irrepressible Schroeder feeble, barely able to speak, weepy and depressed. His fondest hope--to return...
After denouncing import quotas as "ineffective and extremely expensive," President Reagan pledged in September to create a $300 million war chest to help U.S. companies finance exports. Treasury Secretary James Baker met with finance ministers and central bankers from Japan, Britain, France and West Germany at New York City's Plaza Hotel and agreed to help bring down the runaway dollar. Prodded by Government intervention in foreign-currency markets, the dollar by December had declined 18% from its peak in February...
...expected to live more than two months. Felipe too had a health problem: he suffered from severe headaches. He told his mother, "If I die, give my heart to my girlfriend." When a blood vessel ruptured in Felipe's brain, killing him, his heart was transplanted into Donna's chest. Said her father Raymond: "Without what he did for Donna, there would be two tragedies instead...