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...remained in the contest, Flournoy's main rival was Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke, who led the polls until his indictment earlier this year for perjury in connection with his testimony before the Watergate grand jury. Reinecke maintains that he is innocent, but the indictment was a fatal blow. Flournoy, campaigning mostly on his governmental experience, ended up with 63% of the vote...
Fate and politics have a way sometimes of cheating would-be martyrs. Belfast's Price sisters-Dolours, 23, and Marion, 20-were sentenced last Nov. 15 to life in prison for their part in the March 1973 London car bombings that injured 238 persons and led to the fatal heart attack of another. In an effort to gain attention for their Irish Republican cause and force British authorities to return them to Ulster for the rest of their prison term, the sisters pursued a grim path toward self-imposed death: for seven months they systematically starved themselves...
...Hong Kong and contain such exotica as male mouse droppings, silkworm, rhinoceros horn, amber, turtle shell and myrrh. But this ancient Oriental panacea also contains an unlisted substance: the powerful Western painkiller phenylbutazone, a drug that has been linked with at least five cases of a rare and frequently fatal blood disease among users of ginseng pills...
...exposing a small sample of a patient's muscle tissue to halothane or other anesthetic drugs. If the defect is present, the muscle contracts abnormally. In families with a his tory of malignant hyperthermia, the complex test is well worth the trouble. Without prompt treatment, the condition is fatal in six out often cases...
...critics who often agreed with her nutritional dicta but felt she oversimplified the etiology and prevention of disease. The earthy, outspoken Davis was unfazed. "I'm a mother figure," she once said, "and many people hate their mothers as much as they love them." She attributed her own fatal illness to "junk food" consumed in earlier years and to extensive X rays she had endured when applying for life insurance...