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Tito's condition had temporarily stabilized last Wednesday, a week after he went into a coma and shock following a four-month battle with liver damage, kidney failure, high fever and pneumonia...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Marek, | Title: Yugoslav President Tito Dies at Age 87 | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...Either BC's John Cooper is a pro prospect or those twelve-walk laughers have put the bats in a coma...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: No Place Like Home | 4/10/1980 | See Source »

Watching the plays that just didn't click, the leads that were agonizingly frittered away, the errant passes and shots, you could hear the post-mortems even as the patient lapsed into a coma. The 5-3 loss at Princeton, when Harvard aimed (or misaimed) nearly 50 shots on goal. The blown 3-0 Beanpot advantage over B.C. The see-saw battles in New Haven and Hanover...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icemen: Still a Stride Away | 3/5/1980 | See Source »

...celebrated one involving Karen Ann Quinlan, the young New Jersey woman whose hopeless comatose state led her parents to ask that efforts to keep her alive cease. (Though doctors disconnected her respirator almost four years ago, after a ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Quinlan, still in a coma, remains alive.) "This man is not a vegetable," insists Fred Mues, administrator of the Holyoke Geriatric Center, where Spring lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Right to Die | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...though the country had emerged from a coma. After the 46 years of suffering inflicted by the corrupt Somoza dynasty, a new spirit ruled the land. From the flagpole by the bunker in Managua where exiled Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle had commanded a bloody last stand fluttered the red-and-black banner of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). Even the sounds were different Gone was the stream of anti-Communist propaganda that had once poured from Somoza's radio station. In its place came round-the-clock broadcasts of revolutionary songs and tributes to General Cesar Augusto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Undoing the Dynasty | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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