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...wall of suspicion came down in the late 1970s, when Stansfield Turner and William Webster--classmates and friends at Amherst College--were appointed to run the CIA and FBI. "We made a pact right off the bat that we were going to work well together," Webster recalls. William Casey, the current CIA director, has continued this approach...
Despite the outcome, the Egyptians defended their decision to take action when they did. "We were compelled to do the best we could to save those lives," declared Osama el Baz, Mubarak's political adviser. "We had to fight terrorism, and fight it hard." --By William E. Smith. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Valletta and Dean Fischer/Cairo
...year has passed since William Schroeder awoke in Louisville to the sounds of an artificial heart thumping away in his chest. The promise of that day has almost vanished. All but gone is the man who impressed the world with his spunk--teasing his doctors just days after surgery, asking for beer, talking forthrightly with President Reagan by phone and bullishly announcing to the world, "I feel like I've got ten years left." Three strokes, one suffered in mid-November, have left the once irrepressible Schroeder feeble, barely able to speak, weepy and depressed. His fondest hope--to return...
...only thing worse than having one parent in the hospital," says Mel, "is having two." The sufferings of Jarvik-7 patients, further emphasized by the death last month of Swedish Recipient Leif Stenberg, 53, have led a growing number of doctors to demand a moratorium on permanent implants. Dr. William DeVries, the only U.S. surgeon authorized to perform permanent implants, disagrees; he has announced that he intends to try Jarvik-7s in three more patients. None of the families of DeVries' earlier patients has criticized that decision. Indeed, the Schroeders say they are grateful for the good times they have...
Thus were the bristly experts in the world of literary scholarship arguing last week the merits of a young Kansan's claim that he had discovered in Oxford a long-buried poem by William Shakespeare. If authentic, the work would be the first notable addition to the canon in more than three centuries. Gary Lynn Taylor, 32, joint general editor of the Oxford University Press's forthcoming New Complete Shakespeare, reported that he first glimpsed the find while checking through the Bodleian Library's listing of first lines in the catalog of its vast manuscript collection. He came across...