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...technique has been tried at only a handful of medical centers around the world and only on the most desperately ill patients. Stoffel, together with Dr. Helmut Borberg at the University of Cologne, is treating ten people, most of them with the same condition as Lewis', known to doctors as familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH. In Moscow, eminent Soviet Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov is treating another ten FH patients, working closely with the Rogosin Institute in an unusual Soviet-American collaboration. Both overseas groups report that their patients' angina has decreased and that they perform better on stress tests...
...last week West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and ten other Christian Democratic leaders protested the award for Chazov. Reason: in 1973 Chazov, along with 24 other members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, signed a letter against Sakharov that the protesters say initiated the campaign of persecution against him. An embarrassed Nobel Committee admitted that it had not been aware of the letter and expressed its "discomfort" at the news. Chazov professed not to understand the fuss. "I'm from Gorky," he said of the city where Sakharov has been exiled since 1980. "It's a nice town...
...Health School doctor Bernard Lown. He's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize today in Sweden, and probably nothing so far in his distinguished life has given him so much unexpected grief. He's been called naive by Reagan Administration officials; his credibility has been challenged by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and he's had to answer endless questions about how far in cahoots his Soviet counterpart, Dr. Evgueni I. Chazov, really is with the Kremlin bosses. And all along he's patiently repeated over and over again the leitmotif of his group, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear...
Complained Walter Kohl '89 of Germany, the son of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, "I don't know how to measure 18 inches exactly because I'm used to dealing in centimeters...
...German officials announced that a husband-and-wife team of suspected spies had fled to East Germany. The pair were identified as Herbert Willner, 59, a defense expert influential within the Free Democratic Party, and his wife Herta-Astrid, 46, a secretary in the office of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Their defection came four weeks after Hans Joachim Tiedge, one of Bonn's top counterespionage officials, had fled to East Germany, along with three other suspected Communist agents. The Willner case prompted renewed demands for the resignation of Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann, who oversees Bonn's domestic intelligence agency...