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...well-developed case of heart disease. Eventually the narrowing arterial passage could be blocked by a blood clot or by a spasm that constricts and closes the artery. That could cut off the blood supply to his heart, causing possibly fatal damage to its muscle. In short, he is a prime candidate for heart attack, which annually strikes 1.5 million Americans, killing half a million of them. (Women as well as men are vulnerable to heart disease, though usually later in life...
Shuttling between hot spots in the Middle East for the past three weeks, CBS News anchorman Dan Rather has been just where he likes to be: at the center of the action. But last week he missed a big story back on his home turf. In another spasm of turmoil at the angst-ridden House of Murrow, CBS News president David Burke, 54, was forced to resign after two years on the job. Eric Ober, 48, a 24-year veteran of CBS who currently runs the five local stations that the network owns, will become the fourth news president since...
However, neither side's concessions will end the violence that racks the country. In the latest spasm of unrest last week, more than 40 people were killed when rival black groups fought in the township of Kagiso and mixed-race rioters clashed with police in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Some black groups, notably the Pan Africanist Congress, say they will not abide by the A.N.C.'s cease-fire...
...settlement policy. But Bush's comment was read in Israel as a signal that the U.S. might be hardening its own policy. Israelis resent American pressure in part because they are so vulnerable to it. The body politic, which was already in a state of paralysis, suddenly went into spasm. Within 13 days the government collapsed...
...even God could resolve the present situation in Florence," lamented Giorgio Morales, the city's mayor. He and the 15 members of the Florence city council stepped down last week, frustrated by a spasm of racial violence that has shaken the cradle of Italian humanism...