Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blood type, became available. Rise's right lung was infected with pneumonia, but the left was healthy enough to be transferred. It was artificially inflated, drained of blood and filled instead with a cold fluid that kept it at a temperature close to freezing during the 93-min. interval between excision and implantation. The entire procedure took six hours and involved five surgeons, three anesthesiologists, two pulmonary specialists and 15 nurses and technicians. At week's end Wilson, though still in critical condition, was awake, responsive and watching television...
...Pope's meeting with Arafat unhelpful. Indeed, there were questions about why the spiritual leader of the world's largest Christian body would meet openly with the commander of an organization that has in the past endorsed terrorism as a tactic. John Paul kept the 20-min. audience low key; according to the Vatican communiqué, he told Arafat of his "constant concern to favor the difficult process of peace in the Middle East...
During a 45-min. meeting with Kohl Thursday evening, Schmidt tried to convince him that a quick, clean contest might result in an absolute Christian Democratic majority-and a mandate to govern without F.D.P. support. Kohl was noncommittal. Schmidt then summoned Genscher and told him pointblank that he had "lost political confidence" in the Free Democrats...
...also hit by a potentially more costly problem last week: a $ 120 million libel suit filed by General William Westmoreland. The suit is the latest upshot of a controversial Jan. 23 documentary titled The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception. The 90-min. program charged that Westmoreland, while commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, joined in "a conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to misrepresent enemy troop strength during the year leading up to the January 1968 Tet offensive. In July, CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter, responding to criticism, admitted that the documentary, produced...
Then Lynne puts her new cast through its first complete run-through of the 13-min. Jellicle Ball number. Says Ken Page: "You could see the exhaustion during that number, their faces down to their knees, but they kept going. When they were finished there was a tremendous sense of exhilaration. It was one of those collective moments when you realize that the show is going to be terrific, that the audience is going to scream." Says Nunn: "It was like Sebastian Coe going for the world record. At the end we all had tears in our eyes...