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...Richard Nixon was treated for viral pneumonia at the 500-bed facility in 1973. Lyndon Johnson had his gall bladder excised at the hospital in 1965 then proudly displayed his scar to anyone who cared to see it. Bethesda, in the northwest outskirts of Washington, D.C., is also a jewel in the crown of the U.S. military health care system, whose 688 facilities care for the nation's wounded in time of war. But presidential patronage notwithstanding, the massive system, and Bethesda in particular, has been sorely wounded in recent weeks and may be slow to recover from the strange...
...cluster of cases against the Mafia that is turning Giuliani into a national figure. His office is currently prosecuting three major cases, including the "Pizza Connection" trial, in which the American and Sicilian , Mafia are accused of importing $1.6 billion worth of heroin into the U.S. The jewel in the crown is the "Commission" trial, sometimes called "The Case of Cases," which is set to begin next month. In what could be the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943, the dons of the five...
...town close to artistic exhaustion, a go project is The Jewel of the Nile, a sequel to a ripoff (Romancing the Stone) of a canny remake (Raiders of the Lost Ark) of a '40s Saturday-matinee serial. And a winner is something as automatic as a Steven Spielberg special (last year he produced Back to the Future and The Goonies), a Sylvester Stallone sequel (Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV) or a comedy from Saturday Night Live alumni (this year's three Chevy Chase films, Fletch, National Lampoon's European Vacation and Spies Like Us, were among...
...escape from Omar's clutches, and walk all the way across the desert and up several steep cliffs just so she, Al, Jack and Ralph (Danny DeVito), whom they've managed to pick up somewhere along the way, can crash Omar's laser show and present the real jewel to his adoring public...
Perhaps the only highlight of The Jewel of the Nile is that Kathleen Turner fans will have the opportunity to chart the progressive disintegration of Turner's Nino Cerrutti ensemble as she suffers through the rigor of desert living. For the rest of us, we'll just have to wait for the next dose of Romance, sure to arrive before we know...