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...well-equipped American military hospital in the former Canal Zone. On his flight to Panama, Jordan and Cutler were accompanied by an as yet unnamed physician, selected by the White House. Nonetheless, an Administration spokesman insisted at week's end that there were no plans to admit the monarch to Gorgas...
...advice of his international team of physicians, the cancer-ridden Shah, 60, was scheduled to undergo major surgery this week: the removal of an inflamed and enlarged spleen that doctors believe may contain a tumor. The former monarch, whose gall bladder was removed at a New York City hospital last October, suffers from a number of other grave ailments, including anemia, that may be related to B-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system...
...operation will take place at Panama's most exclusive private clinic, the Paitilla Medical Center-roughly 35 miles from the Shah's rented home in exile on Contadora Island. At week's end the monarch moved into a suite of six rooms and a solarium in the modernistic, whitewashed hospital, which offers a breathtaking view of the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Gorgas Hospital, still operated by the U.S. military in the former Canal Zone, is one of the best-equipped medical facilities in Central America. But the Shah had not requested to be admitted there...
...Hiro, wearing a magnificent yellow robe, allowed chamberlains to replace the simple silk hat that once marked a minor with the ornate embi no ei (swallowtail ribbons) that symbolized manhood in ancient Japan. The presence of Grandfather Emperor Hirohito, 78, at the ceremony was especially auspicious. No other Japanese monarch has ever lived long enough to see a grandson switch hats...
...Parliament abolished the monarchy, and then General Oliver Cromwell declared himself the nation's Lord Protector. King Charles II, as he styled himself, though uncrowned, lived dependent on the charity of others. Fraser quite rightly emphasizes the humiliation and the poverty of these years. Charles II, unlike any other monarch of 17th-century Europe, learned about hunger and cold at first hand...