Word: illing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Panhandlers. Some stop you on the street, some call out from under the eaves, hoping that they will be heard. Some are homeless, some are mentally ill...
...dates for eleven interviews with Dr. James Curran, head of the CDC's AIDS program. The most poignant passages recount the first stirrings, before doctors knew there was such a disease. Shilts suggests that the first non-African victim may have been Margrethe Rask, a Danish physician who fell ill in 1976 while working in a primitive village hospital in Zaire and died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1977. At about the time Rask succumbed, Shilts began interviewing physicians about the health implications of the gay sexual revolution. Often, in private, they noted the spread of various venereal and gastrointestinal...
...since Charles Foster Kane's immortal "Rosebud" has a deathbed utterance caused such a stir. CIA Director William Casey, partly paralyzed and gravely ill following brain surgery, was in Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last winter when an unexpected visitor entered his room. It was Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey off and on for four years and had somehow slipped through CIA security for one last encounter. So Woodward says in his new book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (Simon & Schuster; $21.95), relating that the interview lasted just four minutes and Casey...
...food brought up there," she says. "There was a lavatory there. We never had to go out of the room." What's more, she says, the incapacitated Casey was unable to talk. But a knowledgeable medical source at Georgetown University Hospital says that Casey, though gravely ill, was not totally incapable of speaking. Monsignor J. Joshua Mundell, who visited Casey about twice a week, told TIME: "He was in very bad shape. It was hard for him to form words." But not impossible; Mundell acknowledges that Casey could have spoken the words reported by Woodward "if he had wanted...
...point, had to accept the resignations of his two top aides for their part in bushwhacking the Biden candidacy. Worse, Dukakis first denied his campaign's part in undermining Biden, then revealed his aides' role, then hesitated before letting them go. His handling of the crisis made him look ill-informed and indecisive...