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DIED. Richard Hughes, 77, flamboyant dean of Asia's English-language foreign press corps, whose Bible-quoting, storytelling prowess made him "Your Grace" to generations of journalists; of kidney and liver diseases; in Hong Kong. Born in Melbourne, Hughes covered the North African campaign of World War II and the Korean and Viet Nam wars, and reported on Asia for the Times of London and the Economist. He was the model for the journalist Old Craw in John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy...
Ashley Bailey, whose fight against liver disease ended in death. This little girl's struggle, heightened by President Reagan's plea for a donated liver, has brought hope to other children whose survival depends on transplanted organs...
...Europe's greatest culinary riches: the truffles of Périgord, Bayonne ham, Roquefort cheese, Armagnac, walnuts, chestnuts, wild mushrooms, vast amounts of poultry and pork. It is the principal home of foie gras and boasts more than 100 hot and cold dishes based on duck or goose liver, some accented with sauerkraut, seaweed, prunes and green grapes. Duck is to the southwest what steak is to Texas, observes Wolfert, whose 30 or so recipes for the bird range from duck sausage with green apples and chestnuts to duck breasts with capers and marrow. Above all, the region...
DIED. Ashley Bailey, 14 months; of biliary atresia, a liver disease; in Fort Worth. In a July radio address, President Reagan appealed for a liver-transplant donor for Ashley. More than 5,000 phone calls resulted, but no compatible liver could be located for the infant. Reagan's appeal, however, has been credited with finding seven donors for other needy patients...
...unusual for these Olympic athletes to see the actual people they are benefiting, said second-ranked U.S. skater Brian Boitano. In particular, he added, one 10-year-old liver cancer patient who used to skate, impressed him, with his bravery...