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...years, policemen have hidden in trees, concealed themselves in the trunks of cars or peered through bedroom curtains in order to enforce South Africa's laws against interracial lovemaking. They have been instructed to confiscate dirty bed linen as legal evidence and to force suspects to undergo an examination by police doctors. Over the years, the government's so-called sex laws have resulted in the prosecution of as many as 20,000 people. The stigma of conviction has also led to suicides and the murders of lovers and children...
...Even though it seemed unlikely that there was cause for great alarm," says Senior Editor Walter Isaacson, "anytime the President has to undergo serious surgery, it's major news." The decision to switch covers was quickly made, and the week's third and final choice was the presidential surgery. While the Business staff reluctantly cut back the nearly completed Coke story to five pages, a host of reporter-researchers, writers and editors, as well as members of the art and picture departments, canceled weekend plans and got down to work. Around the country, correspondents switched their attention from old Coke...
...unpleasant surprise. What had started out as routine minor surgery had turned into a serious problem. One small polyp had been removed from his colon, but in the process doctors discovered another, larger one. They knew that such growths very often become malignant. He would have to undergo major surgery: a three-hour operation, involving a deep abdominal incision, to be performed under general anesthesia, never a happy prospect for a 74-year-old man. The doctors offered him a choice: wait two or three weeks, or go ahead as quickly as possible. Go ahead, said the President...
Still, knowing what he knows now, Cattau admitted, he will recommend that the President undergo more frequent colon examinations. It is now clear, he said, that the President is prone to polyps. In fact, the tendency may run in the President's family. Oller disclosed that the President's brother Neil, 76, a retired California ad executive, was recently diagnosed as having cancer of the colon. Said Oller: "I would recommend that Reagan have a repeat colonoscopy in six months...
...recently as Thursday, sophomore Caitlin Cahow was a defender on the women’s hockey team, enjoying her offseason in peace and quiet. Saturday, however, she was forced to undergo a baptism by fire, stepping in between the pipes for the Harvard women’s lacrosse team and essentially learning...