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...started out as routine minor surgery had turned into a serious problem. One small polyp had been removed from his colon, but in the process doctors discovered another, larger one. They knew that such growths very often become malignant. He would have to undergo major surgery: a three-hour operation, involving a deep abdominal incision, to be performed under general anesthesia, never a happy prospect for a 74-year-old man. The doctors offered him a choice: wait two or three weeks, or go ahead as quickly as possible. Go ahead, said the President...
...Navy Captain Dale Oller, chief of general surgery at Bethesda, snipped out a 2-ft.-long portion of Reagan's colon, the section containing the 2-in.-long polyp, and sewed the intestine back together. "Our patient, our President is doing very, very, very well," Oller announced about an hour after the surgery was completed. "The operation went absolutely perfectly." There were no signs of the complications that sometimes develop during or shortly after major surgery, such as excessive bleeding or infection of the wound. More important, there was no sign of cancer outside the intestine. "We don't know...
...Bethesda hospital on Saturday morning became a mini-White House, with a full complement of Secret Service and military guards and a hastily rigged press and TV briefing room. Donald Regan arrived at around 7 a.m., an hour before his boss woke up to shave. Nancy got there about 9, wearing an Adolfo dress in her favorite cheery red. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane had slipped in a side door a bit earlier. He gave Reagan, clad in lime green pajamas, his regular morning intelligence briefing, and several aides dropped by to discuss the weekly legislative calendar...
...becoming ungovernable. After a brief period of relative calm in June, violence is again on the rise in the black residential areas, with outbursts being reported every day. Last week 13 blacks were killed in the Johannesburg area alone, both by police and by other blacks. In one 24-hour period, 23 violent incidents were reported. Throughout the racially divided country there were fire bombings and grenade attacks in black townships almost every night...
...depth of that betrayal may be determined by the House Judiciary subcommittee, which will conduct more hearings this week. Said New Jersey Democrat William Hughes, the chairman: "We're learning a lot more about the E.F. Hutton case by the hour." Yet even before the new hearings open, Hutton is hurting. Said James Hanbury, who monitors financial-services companies for the investment firm Wertheim & Co.: "Hutton's sales force is nearly demoralized, and its customers are starting to hold back. Even after it's over, Hutton will still wear the stigma. And in this business, which is regulated by trust...