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Within another 24 hours he was riding the roller coaster of emotions back down. He boarded the White House elevator to go to the lawn for a helicopter trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to visit El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte, gravely ill with cancer. On the elevator he was told that Attorney General Edwin Meese was calling. Reagan ducked into the White House physician's office and took the phone. Meese was in California. "Mr. President," he said, "I talked to you earlier about resigning. Now is the time I should...
During a picture-taking session with SalvadoranPresident Jose Napoleon Duarte, who isrecuperating from cancer surgery here, Reagan toldreporters, "I, from the first, have said we're acompassionate people, and I think that we all havecompassion for the families of those unfortunatepeople who were on that plane...
...have been a man of crisis, a man of battle, a fighting man. Now God has given me this one test more." With those words, a tearful Jose Napoleon Duarte bade farewell to friends, boarded a U.S. military transport and lifted off last week from San Salvador's Ilopango air force base. Seven hours later, the President of El Salvador checked into Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to face his latest -- and most daunting -- challenge. Before leaving El Salvador, he had announced, "I have a bleeding ulcer in the stomach of a malignant character." Medical tests conducted...
Arab prisoners are held for months without charges or trial for joining the revolt against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. They endure searing days and chilly nights under harsh conditions. -- Stomach cancer sidelines El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte as his country drifts further into crisis. -- Apartheid squabbles on the seashore in South Africa...
...artifacts. But historical furniture and some works of art were ruined. The Cabildo, where the Louisiana Purchase was completed in 1803, is regarded as one of America's most treasured landmarks. Fortunately, thanks to the firemen's quick reflexes, many irreplaceable objects survived, including a bronze death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte...