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...percent majority he needs to win. His opponent is Republican Front leader Alfonso Portillo, the hand-picked choice of former dictator Efrain Rios. "This election is being closely watched by the international community, which fears that a Portillo victory would mean a serious setback for democracy," TIME's Mike Leffert reports from Guatemala City. "Business is also worried that a Portillo win could threaten privatization projects and guarantees for property rights." Weary of their country's 35-year-old civil war, some Guatamalans are beginning to yearn for a return to the militaristic, authoritarianism of Rios administration...
...patience was rewarded. His friend and fellow pianist Gary Graffman was suffering from a similar problem and had found sympathetic and helpful doctors at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. The doctors, Fred Hochberg, a neurologist, and Robert Leffert, an orthopedic surgeon, examined Fleisher and determined that he was suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition that occurs when swollen tissue presses against a major nerve that transmits feeling to the hand. Fleisher was operated on in January 1981 to relieve the nerve. A few months later he began follow-up treatment, a powerful and sometimes painful application of pressure...
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