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Died. W.B. Lipes, 84, lieut. commander for the U.S. Navy and pharmacist's mate whose emergency appendectomy on a shipmate--the first ever on a submarine--became one of the most famous lifesaving feats of World War II; of pancreatic cancer; in New Bern, N.C. When Seaman Darrell Rector fell ill on Sept. 11, 1942, aboard the Seadragon--which had no doctor on board and was a week away from the nearest port--Lipes, who had observed the procedure as a lab technician, was ordered to lead the surgical team. Using ground sulfa pills as an antiseptic and a gauze...
...must submit ourselves to a fresh mandate," he declared. One caucus member objected. Why not wait, he asked, until regularly scheduled presidential elections could take place in 1987? Replied Marcos: "This exercise is needed." The caucus promptly endorsed the election call and authorized Marcos to choose his running mate "in accordance with political traditions in democratic countries." The delegates also passed on the order for new elections to the 200-member National Assembly, where the K.B.L. enjoys a nearly two-thirds majority, for consideration this week. The meeting broke up cheerfully as Marcos invited everyone to lunch...
...would leave Marcos in office, health permitting, until 1992, a full year after the expiration of the crucial U.S. base agreements. Marcos is reported to be suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus, a degenerative tissue disease that often affects the kidneys. This makes his choice of a vice-presidential running mate all the more important. Many Filipinos are convinced that Marcos is plotting to be succeeded by his wife Imelda, 56, even though both have issued denials. Another possibility is that his running mate would be José Rono, the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Government...
SEXUAL REVOLUTIONARY. Since sexual freedom means the end of any claim to sexual exclusivity, jealousy is a lamentable hangover from the days when mates were viewed as personal property and extensions of the self. A high-water mark of this view was Alex Comfort's More Joy of Sex, which compared sexual jealousy to carrying on "like a backward five-year-old who sees another child with his tricycle." He solemnly advised readers to be proud of having a mate that others wish to sleep with. To the late psychoanalyst Leslie Farber, this view of jealousy was an attempt...
...candidate for the vice presidency, an office that has been vacant since 1973. One possibility: First Lady Imelda Marcos. Although the President told NBC Nightly News last week that his wife is "definitely not" a candidate, he announced at week's end that he would have a running mate. Insiders say that Imelda is still pressing to run. Noted Opposition Assemblyman Homobono Adaza: "She's probably the most visible noncandidate around...