European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 health of most is a state secret new York a the flood of med ical information released about american officials contrasts sharply with the scant health reports available on leaders in Many other when physicians found a growth Friday in reagans Large the White House announced that he would have sur Gery to remove it and even added that there was a Chance that the growth was cancer in other the discovery of such a condition might be treated As a state with a vast press corps watching his every an american president would find it difficult to conceal a major followed everywhere there Are More than accredited newsmen in about of them with White House press re porters follow the president almost every where and expect opportunities to see even during when president Johnson had gallstones and kidney stones he pulled up his shirt to show the scars to photog a the president and other top politicians regularly release the results of their medi Cal it want always that in the 1930s and by tacit refrained from taking pictures that would show president Frank Lin crippled by in his in other the health of political leaders is often carefully in the soviet leaders have disappeared from Public View for their illnesses arc reported in detail in official reports Only after they soviet Leader Yuri Andropov had kid Ney failure for a year before his death in february and was out of Public View for the last six months of his when Konstantin Chernenko died on March the announcement want made for More than 18 last president Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines dropped out of Public View amid rumours he had under gone major surgery or was if not grape nut claims Mark by skin of Teeth Boston up a Zany pro Duce dealer has Laid claim to the world record for grape catching by snagging one dropped from the roof of a 38story Bank building Between his i didst think i could do said Paul of Chelsea after completing his they were coming at and i  see Tavilla caught the which reached a Speed estimated at 65 after High winds blew at least 25 others that had been tossed off the 520foot Shawmut Bank build ing in downtown Boston by a Friend away from the wind took a lot of them away from said who suffered a swollen lip when he finally caught the grape in front of about 75 Spectra including municipal court clerk acting As an official the record had been claimed by a Denver Man who caught a grape dropped 354 feet from a 35story Tavilla said he chose Black grapes because they Are easier to spot against the dear president i an about to undergo surgery during which time i will be briefly and temporarily incapable of discharging the constitutional Powers and duties of the office of the president of the United after consultation with my counsel and the attorney i am mindful of the provisions of Section 3 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution and of the uncertainties of its application to such Brief and temporary periods of i do not believe that the drafters of this amendment intended its application to situations such As the instant consistent with my longstanding arrangement with vice president George and not intending to set a precedent binding anyone privileged to hold this office in the i have determined and it is my intention and direction that vice president George Bush shall discharge those Powers and duties in by Stead commencing with the administration of anaesthesia to me in this 1 shall advise you and the vice president when i determine that i am Able to resume the discharge of the constitutional Powers and duties of this May god bless this nation and us Ronald Reagan Transfer of Power a photo this is a copy of the letter president Reagan signed temporarily turning Over the Powers and duties of the president to vice president George already after eight Days of denials of any ill the presidential Palace acknowledged that Marcos was sick but described the ailment As signs of approaching months when Marcos ventured out of the Palace he acknowledged he had been so seriously ill he had to be kept in an oxygen tent because he could hardly and had come close to japanese prime minister Masayoshi Ohira died in office in june 1980 of com plications of a heart he had been hospitalized 12 Days earlier complaining after the successful surgery to remove a growth from his Large Reagan signed a second reclaiming the authority of his of and his doctors at first said he would be released after a few Days of rest and routine in the Oil states of the persian medical information is rarely a cancer surgery might never be re because it can be extremely disruptive to Public stability and said a senior area it would be reported As and the surgeons would in the Public was left in the dark for years about the medical condition of president Georges Pompidou until he died in april 1974 of cancer of the Lym Phatic during his last year in his puffy appearance betrayed and his face became distorted by a variety of drugs administered to fight the this was noted each time Pompidou appeared on but his press office steadfastly denied there was anything right up to the Day of his the slow decline of chinese Leader Mao Tseung was hidden from the which still has not been told the cause of his and Only in Premier Chou in Lais obituary did the people learn he had suffered from cancer for one of the top six party figures be a member of the politburo standing has not been seen in Public for two the foreign ministry took the rare step last october of officially denying foreign news reports that he was in medical information appears to be released on a Caseb Case relatively full details were Given on a Success Ful operation in August 1983 on prime minister Margaret thatchers right when prime minister Winston Churchill suffered a stroke in the news was hushed in a few medical information about politicians is readily 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