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...trip? Aides to Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and newly appointed Minister of War General Mohamed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, who saw Brezhnev last week, insisted that the Soviet leader was in poor health. There were also reports that the Egyptian Cabinet members met him at a health sanatorium outside Moscow. It is quite possible that Brezhnev, 68, who has had a grueling series of diplomatic encounters, including trips to Paris, Mongolia and Vladivostok, may have a touch of grippe, which is-as usual in winter-widespread in Moscow...
Nonetheless, there is strong suspicion that Brezhnev's "illness" was more diplomatic than physical. TIME Moscow Correspondent John Shaw reported that Fahmy and Gamassy did not meet Brezhnev in a sanatorium but were driven in a high-speed, police-escorted convoy to Brezhnev's hunting lodge at Zavidovo, about 80 miles north of Moscow...
...last fall with bone cancer. At one point, she collapsed under the strain, and Senator Edward Kennedy was left to cope. After an exhausting trip to the U.S.S.R. this spring with Ted, Joan on her doctor's advice entered the exclusive Silver Hill Foundation in Connecticut, a private sanatorium that treats alcoholism and related disorders. Joan's friends say her problems are compounded by the fact that "a minimal amount of alcohol produces the maximum effect." It was not her first visit to Silver Hill. In and out of psychiatrists' offices for years, Joan had to struggle...
...reason to be. The Israelis concluded that he was their quarry, though a brief investigation would have shown them that Bouchiki, who had come to Norway from Marseille six years before, was a waiter in a health sanatorium in Lillehammer. Two days after the encounter in the bath, the Israelis lay in wait for Bouchiki as he and his wife emerged from a movie theater. When the couple boarded a bus to go home, two agents in a rented car sent a message by walkie-talkie. As the Bouchikis got off the bus, a car approached. Out jumped a pair...
Died. Roy O. Disney, 78, co-founder with his younger brother Walt of the Disney entertainment empire; of a stroke; in Burbank, Calif. Walt was a young cartoonist and Roy had just left a tuberculosis sanatorium when they decided to start a Hollywood studio in 1923. For capital the two brothers pooled Walt's $40, Roy's $250 and $500 borrowed from an uncle. Roy's role as money manager was defined early: "I deal with the banks and give Walt a free hand." After Walt's death in 1966, Roy continued as president and board...