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...full-people sit in their flag-red folding chairs and chat, sleep, or read The Times. But the network crews, self-contained TV stations complete with backpack transmitters, constantly criss-cross the floor in search of some small scandal. When one stops, the others gather. Like blood beginning to clot, the aisle where Garrick Utley halts suddenly attracts Lesly Stahl, Sam Donaldson, and their assorted assistants. Tuesday afternoon, while most of the delegates stared unseeingly at the podium or talked with someone in an adjacent delegation, Sander Vanocur decided that the Massachusetts delegation needed visiting. Pretty soon, the Bay State...
...Cardinal Pignedoli, 70, one of the Roman Catholic Church's leading diplomats, who visited 105 countries as a Vatican envoy and was a strong candidate for the papacy after the deaths in 1978 of Pope Paul VI and his short-lived successor, John Paul I; of a blood clot of the lungs; during a visit to his home town of Reggio Emilia. Pignedoli served as a navy chaplain in World War II; he was elevated to Cardinal in 1973. As head of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, he "blotted his copybook" during an attempt at Christian-Islamic dialogue...
During the first five years of research, the center introduced several innovations to aid cardiac patients, including blood clot-dissolving enzymes, the insertion of a balloon into the aorta to help pump blood, and the use of radioactive thalium 20 to differentiate healthy heart cells from irreversibly damaged ones...
Tito first entered the Ljubljana Clinic on Jan. 3 for examination of circulatory problems. Nine days later he underwent an unsuccessful operation to remove or bypass a blood clot in his left leg. A form of "dry gangrene"-the localized death of tissue caused by a lack of circulation-developed in the leg, and thus the doctors (with Tito's reluctant concurrence) decided that amputation was necessary...
...nearing for Josip Broz Tito, the country's Communist Party chief and President-for-Life. A medical team at a hospital in Ljubljana reported that Tito's overall condition was good. But then the doctors admitted that an operation to remove or bypass a blood clot in his left leg "did not achieve the desired effect" and "the condition of the leg was gradually deteriorating." On Sunday morning doctors amputated Tito's left leg below the knee, because gangrene had set in. The aging dictator had consented to the operation, after opposing it initially...