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Last week the French President's office released an official communique stating that doctors had detected a mild case of low blood sugar and low blood pressure during Mitterrand's twice-yearly checkup. But rumors persist that the full extent of Mitterrand's mysterious malady has yet to be disclosed. According to a well-placed official, Mitterrand travels with dialysis and transfusion equipment and received one blood transfusion during his Florida visit...
...most effective if used within seven weeks of conception, prevents the hormone progesterone from being absorbed by the lining of the uterus. Without that nourishment the uterus cannot support the growth of the embedded fertilized egg, and the woman miscarries. Taken with prostaglandin, a naturally occurring substance that causes mild uterine contractions, the drug is 95% effective. Developed in 1982 by Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, RU 486 has so far been used by an estimated 55,000 women in 15 countries...
There was a certain exhilaration in the scurry and posturing of special interests, ringed around the central issue of abortion, but there was also concern. One of Washington's talented lawyers, Roemer McPhee, recalled how, as a young attorney in Dwight Eisenhower's White House, he harbored a mild doubt when Ike in 1956 nominated Democrat William Brennan, a practicing liberal. But McPhee, from New Jersey too, knew that Brennan was a thoughtful and decent man. Brennan was confirmed with hardly a ripple...
...Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion. Referring to the political onslaught by civil rights groups and liberal forces that derailed Ronald Reagan's effort to elevate Robert Bork to the high court in 1987, Democratic consultant Roger Craver predicted that "the Bork nomination will seem mild compared with the political mobilization and pressure that will be brought upon the Senate over this nomination...
...Brennan remains keen of mind, but his body is ailing. He fainted about three weeks ago while waiting to board a plane at Newark airport, but revived and went on to take a Scandinavian cruise. After his return to Washington, however, doctors told him he had suffered a mild stroke and urged him to ease up, advice Brennan took. On Friday night he sent a hand-delivered letter to the White House. Citing "my advancing age and medical condition," Brennan wrote that he was resigning "effective immediately...