Word: physician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House elevator to go to the lawn for a helicopter trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to visit El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte, gravely ill with cancer. On the elevator he was told that Attorney General Edwin Meese was calling. Reagan ducked into the White House physician's office and took the phone. Meese was in California. "Mr. President," he said, "I talked to you earlier about resigning. Now is the time I should...
...court, 6 to 3, upheld a Brookfield, Wis., city ordinance that forbids picketing of individual residences. Writing for the majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the law, which was passed after right-to-life demonstrators began picketing the home of a physician who performs abortions, serves the significant Government interest of protecting residential privacy. But at the same time, O'Connor distinguished the ordinance from a prohibition against "general marching through the neighborhood." The antiabortion group has vowed to do just that...
...years ago, Beverly Bartek of Lincoln, Neb., drowned her infant daughter in the kitchen sink two days after her physician told her that her moodiness and paranoia were the results of the baby blues. Angela Thompson had hallucinations after the birth of her first child, jumped off a bridge and was taken to a mental hospital. Still, when she became pregnant with her second child, she notes, "my doctor said, 'Just take it easy. I see no reason why it should happen again...
Partly because of their long-standing prejudices and misconceptions, Americans accounted for only 6% of foreign visitors last year. "We were a bit frightened about Turkey," says Chuck Pyfer, a physician from Eugene, Ore., who is backpacking through the country with his wife Kathy. "All our friends asked us, 'Why would you ever want to go there?' " After first visiting Greece and one of its islands, Kos, about six miles off the Turkish coast, the Pyfers decided on the spur of the moment to see Bodrum. They loved what they found. "The people are gentle and gracious, and the villages...
Charney followed the 56-year-old physician from West Palm Beach, Fla. for about five blocks from the site of the blaze at Yale's Beinecke Plaza before the pair stopped in a college dormitory archway. The two then engaged in a brief conversation before police arrived and arrested Bracey...