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House Speaker Tip O'Neill [May 18] may be on the ropes as your article says, but for millions of working people in this country, the principles of O'Neill and the Democratic Party still hold. They can't be disposed of with one election or one budget vote...
...Chicago's streets, phoned Rostenkowski from Texas and told him to take charge. Rostenkowski did, but only after snatching the gavel away from embarrassed Majority Leader Carl Albert. Two years later, Albert, then Speaker, vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination as majority whip. Rostenkowsi's golf buddy Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts got the nod instead and went on to become Speaker. Last November the whip's position was again within Rostenkowski's reach, but O'Neill needed a staunch loyalist to chair Ways and Means. Though a stranger to the fine points...
...testing, has improved apace. This method has been used on some patients to unclog coronary arteries laden with cholesterol plaque. A catheter is inserted into an artery in the arm or leg and guided to the blocked artery. Then a smaller tube with a tiny, uninflated balloon at its tip is threaded through the larger tube and centered in the plaque-narrowed area. The balloon is inflated for several seconds, flattening the plaque against the artery walls and opening the passage. Dr. Andreas Grvintzig at Emory University, who developed the experimental technique, says it unblocks arteries in 90% of attempts...
...patients with severe rhythm disruption, scientists at Johns Hopkins University and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore developed a small device called an automatic implantable defibrillator. This is placed in the abdomen and has electrodes that are connected to the heart's right atrium and to the ventricles' pointed tip. It is powered by lithium batteries good for three years or 100 shocks. Says Hopkins Cardiologist Myron Weisfeldt: "When the patient has an arrhythmia persisting for at least ten seconds, the machine waits another five seconds and then discharges an electric shock, which usually stops the arrhythmia...