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...well before dawn last Wednesday when Dr. Jack Copeland, the leading heart surgeon at Tucson's University Medical Center, had to face the grim truth: his patient was dying. Thomas Creighton, a 33-year-old Arizona auto mechanic, had undergone transplant surgery 24 hours earlier to replace a heart , ravaged by two heart attacks and cardiomyopathy, a progressive disease of the heart muscle. Right from the start there were problems with the transplanted organ, and a pacemaker had to be used. Then Creighton's body began rejecting the heart. At 3 a.m. he went into cardiac arrest...
...Christ's suffering. What about the children who have suffered not 2,000 years ago, but yesterday? And they never talk about it." Mauriac was to recall the look in the speaker's pained eyes, "as of a Lazarus risen from the dead, yet still a prisoner within the grim confines where he had strayed, stumbling among the shameful corpses . . . I could only embrace him weeping...
Thanks in part to less Japanese competition, Detroit's automakers climbed out of the grim trough of recession. They earned profits of $9.8 billion in 1984, vs. a loss of $4.2 billion in 1980. Last year the carmakers' sales rebounded to 7.9 million cars, vs. a paltry 5.7 million in 1982. In his announcement, the President complimented Detroit's automakers on their "improved performance." Allowing the Japanese controls to come off seemed to make no sense to most Detroit auto executives. Said Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca: "This is a sad day for America--for American workers and American jobs...
Hours after the story appeared, Coates resigned his portfolio while denouncing portions of the Citizen account as "wrong and libelous." For his part, a grim-faced Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said that Coates' error of judgment was one that "you or I or any other imperfect human being could make...
...covered only $175 million of the $1.6 billion they borrowed between 1982 and 1984 and are legally obliged to pay back to the Government. The farmers are trying to work out a deal with the cigarette companies to buy up the surplus tobacco, but the long-term prospects remain grim...