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...government ban on mass funerals for the victims of violence in the 36 districts where the emergency laws are in effect was a sharp blow to blacks, who have been barred from holding political meetings of any kind. The funerals have been drawing as many as 50,000 mourners. In the future, the government decreed, a funeral can be held only indoors and for no more than one victim. Moreover, it may be conducted only by an ordained minister, who must not refer in any way to political systems, governments, boycotts, states of emergency or any action by the police...
...Nancy Reagan's upper lip in 1982, were excised by a procedure called curettage and electrodesiccation (see diagram) that usually takes five minutes. In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade. Afterward, an electrified needle is applied to the area to destroy any remnants of malignancy. In the case of Nixon's l-in.-sq. tumor, a method called microscopically controlled surgery was used. The process calls for the removal of successive slices of tissue, each of which is examined...
DIED. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 62, President of Guyana and authoritarian ruler of his Caribbean-rim nation (pop. 800,000) since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964 election by playing on tensions between ethnic Indians and blacks and on U.S. and British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices...
What's in it for the elderly? Older Americans are beginning to recognize the overlap between children's needs and their own. Florida is seeing a sharp increase in the number of grandparents raising grandchildren. And many reason that pushing issues like children's health care makes cash-strapped lawmakers more conscious of guarding benefits such as Medicare for their other fragile constituency, the aged. "It's not just that we're afraid Florida doesn't care enough about children," says Pat Stripling, 60, head of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Miami, who is lobbying for juvenile-justice reform this spring...
...choose a successor to John Paul II, and is even tipped by some Vatican officials as a potential pontiff himself. So,we were keen to glean hints from his homily about his thinking on the challenges facing the Church. On Good Friday, for example, Ratzinger surprised many with a sharp denunciation of what he called the ?filth? in the Church, which he characterized as a boat shipping water from every side. Those comments had been taken as a strong indicator of Ratzinger's desire to tackle what he saw as spiritual corruption and clerical arrogance...