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Instead of deflating the scandal, the Shalom pardon heightened it. Small parties in the Knesset made five separate calls for no-confidence votes, forcing Peres to give in to a gale of protest from members of his own Labor Party and agree finally to the establishment of an official probe. "I am prepared to be questioned before any judicial commission," he said. "I acted in a straightforward and responsible manner...
...Great Mouse Detective is aimed at children and their indulgent parents, Labyrinth (written by Monty Python's Terry Jones) means to beguile precocious adolescents of all ages. With nods to L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz) and Children's Author Maurice Sendak, Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are: deaf-and-dumb doorknobs, feral party animals that toss their heads like volleyballs, a terrier-faced knight and his sheep-dog steed, a silly sage with a talking bird growing out of his head...
While the pop performers entertained the crowd of some 25,000, the condition of many radiation victims worsened. Dr. Robert Gale, the UCLA bone-marrow specialist who has been assisting Soviet doctors in Moscow, reported that the death toll from Chernobyl had reached 23. Twenty-one of the dead were among the 299 fire fighters and plant workers who had been hospitalized after the accident. At Moscow's Hospital No. 6, where most of the gravely ill are undergoing treatment, Chief Radiologist Angelina Guskova told the Soviet news agency Novosti that as many as 80 victims remained in "extreme danger...
...plight of the stricken gave rise to tensions between U.S. and Soviet doctors. Guskova said last week that the Gale team, which included two UCLA colleagues and an Israeli specialist, was unaware of some recent diagnostic advances. Said she: "That's what comes of self-reliance. It's a pity. They are excellent specialists and could have been of much more help." Replied Gale, whose group assisted in 13 of the 19 bone-marrow transplants that were administered to the sickest victims: "We have worked together very successfully." However, eleven patients who underwent the risky marrow transplants have reportedly died...
...Robert P. Gale, a U.S. bone marrow specialist helping care for Chernobyl radiation victims in Moscow, arranged to go to Kiev yesterday to check on patients hospitalized there and discuss long-term medical care and case follow-ups. At least 299 people were hospitalized immediately after the accident. Kiev is 80 miles from the disaster site...