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Freedom Leap. Fortnight ago two Burmese physicians were excitedly summoned by a Russian woman embassy doctor to Stryguine's fashionable 42 Inya Road address. They found Stryguine in a deep coma from an overdose of sleeping pills. He was surrounded by Russians who only reluctantly let the critically sick man be moved to Rangoon General Hospital. Two Soviet toughs went along to watch...
...were routine with me," says Marclan. "Long cuts were made on my ankles so the doctors could insert needles into larger veins than they could find in my arms ... At times I would have convulsions, and there would be other times when I would lie for days in a coma . . . My father gave several direct-line transfusions to me before he had to stop because he couldn't stand to lose more blood. Then he had to go searching for blood donors again...
Died. Ada E. Foote Wrigley, about 90, widow of William Wrigley Jr., who minted millions from chewing gum, owned baseball's Chicago Cubs; after eleven years in a coma; in Pasadena, Calif...
...diuretic acetazolamide (trade name: Diamox), often given to heart patients to help flush the brine out of their systems, can so upset a congested liver as to cause hepatic coma-especially when it is given in combination with ammonium chloride...
...year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church had rallied earlier from a coma and partial paralysis that attended a sroke Monday, but other symptoms recurred...