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Satanic Verses Victim The Norwegian publisher of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was shot in the back at his home outside Oslo by an unidentified gunman. William Nygaard, 50, was expected to recover fully from the attack. He is the third person to be injured or killed as the result of an association with the book...
Deadly Devices C.R. Bard Inc., one of the world's largest medical devicemakers, pleaded guilty last week to federal charges of selling untested heart catheters. The firm will pay $61 million in criminal fines and federal civil damages. The devices killed at least one person and caused 22 others to have emergency surgery...
...bill for about $10,000.'' Helen L. Scanlan of Arlington, Texas, fumes, ''I am outraged with Mrs. Clinton. Doesn't she realize that some other patients will end up paying for this?'' John A. Parkins of Oakmont, Pennsylvania, comments, ''The hospital isn't 'eating' the bill. Every person who pays St. Vincent's is covering it.'' St. Vincent's will neither confirm nor deny the $10,000 figure, noting that financial information regarding patients is privileged, but, the hospital says, swallowing charges beyond what Medicare will pay is not unusual...
...venerable school of historiography holds that great men and women make history, not that history makes great men and women. It is still a chicken- and-egg argument: Who or which comes first, the revolution or the revolutionary, the reformer or the reformation, the parade or the person leading it? The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize last week to Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, and F.W. de Klerk, President of the Republic of South Africa, bolsters both sides of this timeworn debate. De Klerk is pre- eminently an individual who has been pushed forward...
RECORD SET. By RAMON BLANCO SUAREZ, 60, Venezuelan guitar maker, in becoming the oldest person to climb to the 29,028-ft. summit of Mount Everest; in Nepal...