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...thousands of fen/ phen users started showing up in doctor's offices and hospitals with catastrophic heart and lung problems. One of them was an athletic but overweight Boston- area bride-to-be, Mary Linnen, 29. Hoping to look a little more svelte in her wedding dress, Linnen had been taking the pills for only 23 days before she developed a fatal lung condition, primary pulmonary hypertension, that effectively suffocated her within the year. Many other pill takers turned up with plaque-riddled heart valves requiring open-heart surgery...
Legal claims proliferated against American Home Products, whose Wyeth-Ayerst subsidiary made Pondimin (or fenfluramine, the "fen" in fen/phen) and marketed the related diet drug Redux. Though many of these suits were combined in a single multibillion-dollar class action, Mundy focuses on Linnen's case and one other. In the latter, a couple of outsize Texas lawyers named Kip Petroff and Robert Kisselburgh brought ole-boy tactics to bear on behalf of Debbie Lovett, 36, a manicurist with valve disease. Their client had a long history of smoking and high blood pressure, which suggests that more than diet drugs...
...moving to fill in the gap there," Linnen said. "There may be some delays, but our management personnel filling in behind striking operators would do the best they can to fill...
...Linnen said 10,000 management and supervisory personnel ran the company's long-distance switchboards on Sunday. Ordinarily, he said, AT&T has 12,000 operators working on Sundays...
With 80 percent of the long distance telephone market, AT&T handles an average of 33 million calls daily. Because of automated direct-dialing equipment, only about 10 percent of them require the assistance of the company's 36,000 union operators, Linnen said...