Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, July 6, 1990 TAG: 9007060464
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An artery leading to his heart had narrowed dangerously and doctors had to reinflate it with a balloon catheter, the cardiologist who treated him at a Portland, Ore., hospital said Thursday.
"We think we got him just in the nick of time," said Dr. Herbert Semler.
Hackman, 60, was vacationing on the Oregon Coast when he began suffering chest pain. If he hadn't entered the hospital when he did on Tuesday, Semler said, "the artery would have completely shut down."
Semler said the rest of Hackman's coronary arteries look good, and the actor can return to an active life.
\ Former President Jimmy Carter gave President Bush mixed reviews after accepting Philadelphia's $100,000 Liberty Medal at Independence Hall.
"I've been extremely disappointed in President Bush on environmental issues," Carter said Wednesday. "In almost every case he's come down basically on the same positions as James Watt," the controversial interior secretary under President Reagan.
"But on other things, in national affairs, I think Bush is doing a great job," Carter, a Democrat, said.
\ Nelson Mandela's speechwriter needed help with the anti-apartheid leader's speech in Detroit June 28 and a flight attendant came to the rescue, the Detroit Free Press reported Thursday.
The writer wanted a song that would relate to the struggle of blacks in South Africa, and he asked flight attendant Germaine Smith for help. Smith, of Hyattsville, Md., suggested the Marvin Gaye song "What's Going On."
Mandela quoted the lyrics, "Brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying. Mother, mother, there's far too many of you crying." He told the crowd he had listened to "Motortown" music during his 27 1/2 years in prison. Gaye recorded on the Motown label.
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