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...rumors swept through Moscow that Brezhnev had suffered a stroke during the flight, the Foreign Ministry tersely announced last week that "President Brezhnev is not ill at all." Other officials were more cautious in their choice of words. Brezhnev is "definitely not seriously ill," said one, explaining that the President was merely exhausted after his trip...
Tommy has seen the Old Boys of Spring come. Now he is seeing them go. P.J. McCarthy made it to Winter Haven this year. But a stroke killed him before training properly started. Last year "Go" Walls died at 83. The year before it was John Cavanagh...
...that's Jaruzelski," the prisoners argued. The commandant was adamant, threatening the detainees with all sorts of punishments if they did not obey his orders. In mock obedience, one of them approached the snowman and knocked off his cap, epaulets, decorations and dark glasses. Then, with one decisive stroke, he chopped off its head...
...Pope's crackdown began last year after Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe, considered Catholicism's second most powerful leader, suffered a serious stroke. In October, John Paul cast aside Arrupe's choice of an interim leader and landed control to his personal delegate, Jesuit Father Paolo Dezza. Some 5,000 protest letters came to the order's headquarters from the 86 Jesuit regional units around the globe. A group of 18 West German Jesuits, including eminent Theologian Karl Rahner, complained sharply to the Pope that it was difficult to "recognize the hand of God in this...
DIED. Philip K. Dick, 53, prolific, sometimes visionary science-fiction writer whose multilayered stories probed the discrepancies between illusion and reality; of a stroke; in Santa Ana, Calif. The characters in his 50 novels (Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said) were often ordinary people trapped in extraordinary circumstances whose distorted perceptions prevented them from realizing their own dilemmas. The task of the science-fiction writer, said Dick, "is creating multiverses, rather than a universe...