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...armed forces of the world's ranking superpower, would be unconscious for more than three hours on Saturday and, in his own words, "incapable of discharging the constitutional powers and duties" of his office. At best, he would be confined to Bethesda Naval Hospital for a week to ten days of postoperative recuperation after that. Even after he returned to the White House, it might take as long as two months for him to regain his full strength, and there would be continuing concern about the health of the oldest man ever to occupy the Oval Office...
...President Reagan recovers during his seven to ten-day stay in the hospital, he will be living with tubes: the one inserted through his nose into his stomach at the beginning of the operation, and an in travenous tube in his left arm through which he will receive nourishment in the form of dextrose, a sugar, and Ringer's lactate, a buffer solution. Both tubes will remain in place for several days until he resumes normal bowel movements, after which he can begin eating solid food again. The President is also receiving antibiotics to guard against the possibility of infection...
...Wall Street firm of Salomon Brothers that was hard to refuse. As one of Salomon's managing directors, Stockman stands to make more than $700,000 a year in salary and bonuses, in contrast with the $75,000 he earns at OMB. When he told Regan about the offer ten days ago, the chief of staff, who made a few dollars on Wall Street himself as chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., urged him to take...
...deadlock lingered into last week, when lawmakers returned to hot, muggy Washington after a ten-day Fourth of July break. "We're pretty much split down the middle," House Minority Leader Robert Michel said of the impasse. By then Reagan was ready to get back into the fray. Last Tuesday evening he held a reception for congressional leaders of both parties under the oak tree in the Rose Garden. It was at this "Oak Tree meeting" that the President surprised his guests by simply backing down on Social Security, agreeing to dispense with the COLA freeze...
Those demonstrations are bound to be fueled by continuing images of the unrest that has gripped South Africa for the past ten months, ever since militant opposition to the government's apartheid policy began taking root in the black townships. During that period, more than 400 blacks have died, some at the hands of police, others in a struggle between rival black factions, still others because of suspected loyalty to the white authorities...