Word: recoverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus the only alternative was a "temporary" transfer of power to Juan Carlos-maintaining the fiction that Franco retained ultimate authority and might even recover from his illness. The trouble with the plan was that Juan Carlos, at least at first, would have none of it. He had served in...
For a while, Karen's parents kept hoping that she would recover. As their testimony in court revealed, Mrs. Quinlan was the first to accept the inevitable, followed shortly after that by her two natural children, Mary Ellen, 19, and John, 17. But Joseph Quinlan kept talking about a...
None of the medical experts held out any hope that Karen could ever recover. Dr. Julius Korein, a neurologist at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, said it most dramatically when he likened Karen to a child without a brain. Karen, he made clear, is not in a "locked-in" syndrome-i...
Daniel Coburn, a part-time public defender who represents Karen, disagrees. Although he has retreated slightly from his earlier claim that Karen could recover, he still insists that the court must protect her constitutional "right to life." New Jersey Deputy Attorney General David S. Baime takes a similar stand. Says...
Back in Washington, President Ford was determined to take firm enough action to save the crew and to discourage similar captures. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was anxious to prove, after the Saigon evacuation, that the U.S. had not lost its will to fight. Thus the White House ordered the...