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...night. So does almost everyone in such a unit: the lights are kept on; nurses and doctors move about constantly, checking vital signs and taking blood samples; monitors hooked up to patients beep incessantly. Reagan was given antibiotics to combat possible infections and pain medication to ease his moderate discomfort, more the result of the operation than the bullet injury. Dur ing the night, doctors removed the wind pipe tube that had been left in place after surgery to facilitate breathing...
...unfortunately, any nightmares ACSR and Corporation members may be having about a reenactment of the noise, marches and discomfort of that spring will probably remain fuzzy and fearful speculation. SASC activity and support have decreased drastically over the past two years, and reaction to events on the investment-policy front has become increasingly lukewarm...
...Haig conducted a tour of the horizon in which he reiterated that principle more sharply than ever. He defined virtually all of the world's problems, from the Middle East to Central America, in an East-West context, and with an anti-Soviet severity that was sure to discomfort further America's increasingly nervous European allies. Said he: "The emphasis today is on the Soviet problem...
...said to me with a snappy half salute. I hesitated for a moment, glanced at Petya. He was obviously supposed to go with the officer. "I said you may go," he repeated, this time motioning down the street. I stood for a moment, then followed along, relishing the obvious discomfort that this caused the goon...
...Reagan's low profile during the lengthy transition period, his image among voters has remained remarkably constant. Sixty-one percent say they have not changed their views of him because of his conduct so far. And while there may be doubt about Reagan personally, there is no great discomfort about his ideological posture or about the views of his Cabinet. Fifty-three percent find Reagan neither too conservative nor too liberal, and 47% feel the same way about the Cabinet. Among Cabinet members and advisers, Alexander Haig, Reagan's choice as Secretary of State, draws the largest unfavorable...