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...cold, staring anxiously up at the windows of the modern, nine-story clinic. Others gathered in groups during the lunch hour to exchange murmured bits of gossip that might supplement the meager medical bulletins. Each day last week, small crowds huddled in front of the medical center in Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, where Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito continued to wage a formidable but apparently hopeless struggle for his life...
...moment, at least, the health crisis appeared to be over. According to medical bulletins from the clinic at Ljubljana, Yugoslavia's durable President Josip Broz Tito, 87, was "successfully recovering" from the operation early last week in which a team of surgeons had amputated his left leg. His general condition, first reported as good, had progressed by midweek to improving. A photograph released a few days after the operation showed Tito, who has ruled his country uninterruptedly since 1945, sitting in a wheelchair, smiling broadly at his two sons. Because of his age, the critical postoperative period could last...
Tito first entered the Ljubljana Clinic on Jan. 3 for examination of circulatory problems. Nine days later he underwent an unsuccessful operation to remove or bypass a blood clot in his left leg. A form of "dry gangrene"-the localized death of tissue caused by a lack of circulation-developed in the leg, and thus the doctors (with Tito's reluctant concurrence) decided that amputation was necessary...
...years, Yugoslavs have known no other leader. Last week they were resigning themselves to the possibility that the end was nearing for Josip Broz Tito, the country's Communist Party chief and President-for-Life. A medical team at a hospital in Ljubljana reported that Tito's overall condition was good. But then the doctors admitted that an operation to remove or bypass a blood clot in his left leg "did not achieve the desired effect" and "the condition of the leg was gradually deteriorating." On Sunday morning doctors amputated Tito's left leg below the knee...
...crisis began on Jan. 3, when Tito was rushed to the Ljubljana clinic, where he stayed two days for tests and diagnosis. Then he returned to his nearby residence at Brdo, a popular skiing area in northern Yugoslavia. Two famous cardiovascular surgeons were flown in for consultation: Dr. Michael DeBakey of Houston's Texas Medical Center and Dr. Marat Knyazev, a Soviet specialist. The unsuccessful operation, however, was performed by a team of eight Yugoslavs...