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Without the therapy, the Shah's prospects are poor; untreated, cancers like his can kill their victims in 18 months...
...Shah's doctors include such experts as Physician in Chief Hibbard Williams, Parasitologist Benjamin Kean, who visited the ailing monarch in Mexico, and Cancer Therapist Morton Coleman. They concede that if they have erred, it is on the side of conservatism. Robert Armao, an adviser to the Shah, has acknowledged that the ex-monarch's spleen, which originally was said to be suddenly enlarged, had been in that condition for years. But the Shah's aides insist that the lymphoma is spreading, and so do his doctors. After studying a lymph node removed shortly after his arrival...
Does this mean that the Shah must remain in the U.S. for treatment? The question is political, not medical. Though doctors say that they would prefer to treat the Shah in New York City, they acknowledge that he could be treated just as well in Mexico, or in France by the physicians who have cared for him in the past...
...Shah, 60, has been recuperating from surgery by watching old movies on television and receiving such visitors as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Singer Frank Sinatra and Tricia Nixon Cox. He declines to talk to the press, but his aides last week said that he was willing to leave the U.S. if his departure would help free the Tehran embassy hostages...
Privately, some hospital officers concede that they would be relieved by the Shah's departure. Housed in a $900-a-day suite on the 17th floor of the hospital's Baker Pavilion, and protected by one-way glass doors and his own armed guards, the Shah is secure. But hospital personnel will be uneasy as long as he stays. TIME has learned that last week a white-robed black man who claimed to be a Muslim slipped into the medical center's library and threatened three doctors with a samurai sword before he was disarmed by police...