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...Beret physician told the jury that four drug-crazed intruders had slain his pregnant wife and two daughters in their Fort Bragg, N.C., duplex. But the combination of a blood-soaked pajama top and his vengeful fathher-in-law cast doubt on that story, and last year Jeffrey R. MacDonald, 36, began serving three life terms in a California prison. Now, as a result of a 2-to-l decision last week by a U.S. appeals court in Richmond, MacDonald may become a free man once again. The reason: investigative delays violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial...
...latest turn of events thrilled MacDonald. Notified of the news by his attorney at 6:15 a.m., the doctor said he was rushing out to jog five miles. Unless released on bail, however, he must remain in jail, pending any appeal the Justice Department may decide to seek. MacDonald knows only too well that judicial relief can be short-lived. Once before, the Richmond-based court threw out the Government's case on the same speedy trial grounds. But the Supreme Court heard an appeal and MacDonald lost...
...neonatal intensive care have helped reduce deaths and disability among such infants, their problems remain acute. Besides respiratory distress syndrome, "preemies" are susceptible to heart problems, damage to the gastrointestinal tract, cerebral palsy and mental retardation. Says Rosanne's physician, Dr. Irwin Merkatz, an obstetrical perinatologist at MacDonald House-University Hospitals of Cleveland: "Preterm delivery is the single biggest problem in obstetrics today...
...takeoff on 1930s movie musicals. Using Grauman's Chinese Theater as aspic, it captures the clichés, the formulas, the juicily idiotic emotional punch lines of the period. Singing with slyly ironic comic abandon, Jeanette MacDonald (Peggy Hewett) fondles a life-size cardboard cutout of Nelson Eddy, never the most mobile of performers...
...William MacDonald, a cataloguer at Countway Library at the Medical School, said Tuesday Countway had not switched to the UC2 system in the past for "political reasons," but would not elaborate. "There hasn't been any push lately to get people into UC2 as opposed to UC1 that I know of," he said...