Word: crile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freelance Writer George Crile III interested Moyers in the CIA'S secret army after he had done two years of research in and around Little Havana, the home in Miami of 500,000 Cubans. Moyers then worked with Crile for nine more months. The documentary makes no moral judgments. "I wasn't so much trying to tell the viewer anything as to illustrate the process of Government," says Moyers. "I remember how when I was in Washington we raced into decisions, heedless of cause and effect...
...George Crile of the Cleveland Clinic considers the radical mastectomy a holdover from the 19th century. For many cases he advocates an operation called partial mastectomy, which, while more serious than a lumpectomy, still spares most of the breast. Crile's wife Helga, daughter of Poet Carl Sandburg, had the operation eight months ago, and Crile feels that its widespread use could make women more willing to face a diagnosis of breast cancer...