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...Indiana University. The gums may recede, the teeth loosen, biting surfaces are abraded, and tough, white patches called leukoplakia may appear on the gums and cheeks. After several years the mouth can be devastated. Pat Stallings, 22, a University of Texas senior and ex- Skoal dipper, required a gum graft from his upper to his lower jaw after his gums "had receded so far that you could see the bottom part of my teeth and the bone...
DIED. William Anthony (Tony) Boyle, 83, ironfisted labor leader and convicted murderer whose nine-year reign over the United Mine Workers of America was marked by graft and violence; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Boyle died in a hospital near the state prison where he was serving three consecutive life terms for ordering the deaths in 1969 of Union Rival Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, his wife and daughter. The killings took place three weeks after Yablonski lost to Boyle in an election for the union presidency. Yablonski, once a lobbyist for the union, had announced that he intended...
...Louisiana, political scandal is considered high entertainment, and "honest graft" has been tolerated so long as politicians deliver for their constituents. Former Governor Huey Long, the infamous "Kingfish," presided over a scandal-ridden administration in the late '20s, but he also built schools and roads and soaked the rich to give to the poor. Edwards, 57, the son of a Cajun sharecropper, is heir to Long's populist legacy. He helped to streamline the Louisiana constitution and reorganize the state bureaucracy...
...years. The De la Madrid administration, which came to office in 1982 amid promises of "moral renovation," is facing a popular backlash, particularly in the north, where riots against alleged P.R.I. election fraud have sputtered for weeks. Increasingly, Mexican ire is directed at a P.R.I. legacy of corruption, graft and lawlessness that De la Madrid's new broom has been unable to sweep away. Says Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego: "This is the most important and crucial political year since 1968." That was when Mexican troops shot...
...helps to anchor the anklebone. As a result, surgeons have long used pieces of the fibula to patch damaged bones. "It is the outstanding transplant bone," says Dr. Harold Dick, chief of orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center. But traditionally, a simple bone graft taken from the fibula or from any of several bones in cadavers can be used to repair only a small area. In cases like Labollita's, where the gap was more than 3 in. long, ordinary bone grafts fail for lack of an adequate blood supply to nourish them. Amputation...