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Last week the prospects for an end to the 64-day strike suddenly brightened. Exhausted from ten hours of bargaining, Church emerged from a suite in Washington's Capital Hilton Hotel and announced that a new deal had been reached with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which represents 130 leading soft-coal mineowners. Said Church: "I finally made it; we have a contract." Asked if the U.M.W.'s membership would ratify the proposed pact, the union boss gamely ventured, "I think...
...there was some grimmer news too. Benjamin Aaron, the surgeon who removed the bullet at George Washington University Hospital, disclosed last week that the President had been losing blood so rapidly right after the shooting outside the Washington Hilton that he might have died if he had been taken to the White House rather than to the hospital. Moreover, Aaron confirmed that the bullet had lodged only an inch from Reagan's heart. That report had specifically been denied at the time by Hospital Spokesman Dennis O'Leary, who placed the bullet "several inches" away from the heart...
...satirically pious story tells how a soldier's breast-pocket Bible stopped the bullet en route to his heart. Ronald Reagan had no Bible in his jacket outside the Washington Hilton several weeks ago, but some of the world idly suspected that he may have been otherwise armored-that in some obscure way he may have been protected by his own remarkable luck...
Thomas Delahanty, 45, had received more than 30 letters of commendation in his 17 years on the Washington, D.C., police force. When his canine patrol partner, a German shepherd named Kirk, became ill last week, Delahanty was a natural choice for the Hilton assignment. The trio's diverse paths led them, for two tragic seconds last week, into the line of fire between John Hinckley's revolver and the man he allegedly intended to assassinate...
Reporters and TV correspondents on the scene had but one thing on their minds: to get to a telephone. Dean Reynolds of U.P.I. bolted to the front desk of the Washington Hilton, blurting to a clerk, "I gotta use your phone." Getting through to an editor, he shouted, "The President's been shot at!" "Let's go," replied the editor as two rewrite men joined the line, taking a sentence or two of dictation in turns before typing it into the computer. At 2:31 p.m., U.P.I, went on the air with its report, just a minute after...