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...limelight. And they are fighting back. Calling doctors at the Loma Linda Hospital--where Baby Fae became the first person to survive for any length of time with an animal heart--"unethical, impractical and immoral," Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest the public become overly enthralled in the aberration. Likewise, the Humana Hospital has been charged with a gross neglect of established health policy by venturing into the artificial health field with an eye for publicity and profit...
...would an Iraqi officer surrender to an Iranian photographer who was just "threatening" him with his camera? And if "Iran does not seem to be in a position to strike a conclusive blow," why would Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ban the distribution of white undervests among his troops lest they should eventually use them to surrender...
...investors, though, were happy with the change. Some Wall Streeters feared that rumors based on exit polls could stampede the market during trading and create wild price swings. Others worried lest speculators who follow the vote use their knowledge of the balloting to reap profits. Said William Le-Fevre, market strategist for Purcell, Graham & Co.: "The market should not open because there is too much room for abuse." Exchange officials discounted such concerns. "We deal with rumors day in and day out here," said a spokesman, "and I don't think there will be any more or any less...
...band swung into a country tune, God Bless the U.S.A. "Hit the balloons," said Schuman. As 10,000 of them-red, white and blue-rose into the darkening sky, the awed crowd waved tiny American flags and swayed to the music. Tears formed, to be rubbed quickly away, lest a neighbor see. It had been another bravura performance, calculated to make everyone feel good, very good-and to keep Ronald Reagan in the White House four more years...
...Lest NATO get the wrong impression, Papandreou last week also declared that his government differed "on all points" with the alliance's condemnation of the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 last year. Though Papandreou did not condone the Soviets' action, he said, "It is now a fact that [the plane] was carrying out a spying mission for the American...