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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Reserve Pilot takes top gun title Page 5 g getting the jump on dear old dad. Page 8 d Tyson stops Biggs in 7th round sports Page 21 the St trs and filpes authoii1eo unofficial  for Thiu to. Mip Otcel vol 46. No 183 sunday october 18. 1987 j or pfc v d 8693 a girl rescued from Well has surgery Midland Texas a surgeons operated saturday to relieve the swelling of Jessica Mcclure s right foot which was injured when inc is month old girl spent nearly 2vi Days stuck in an abandoned Well Shah. The surgery known As a Fascio Tomy was decided on after a vascular surgeon and a general surgeon examined the girl saturday according id Laurie Johnson a spokeswoman for Midland memorial Hospital. Doctors arc attempting to save Jessi Ca s foot which was severely bruised while she was jammed in the abandoned Well 22 feet below ground. We arc cautiously optimistic about the skin and the Muscles thai arc involved. It still will not be Able to Tell for a number or Days and possibly a week whether we Are going to be Able to Sal Vage the toot said or. Shelton Vincy general and vascular surgeon at the hos Pital. Voney said Jessica was not in any pain and did not require narcotics All night. She s a real fighter he said sat urday she s a patient that we re going to do everything for that we possibly  Jessica was rescued Friday night from the abandoned Well in her aunt s Back Yard As the nation watched on television. The toddler was listed in serious but stable condition before the surgery began Jessica s foot began to swell As her dehydrated body regained fluid Hospital spokeswoman Megan pause said. Plastic surgeon or. Terry Tubb exam ined Jessica s forehead where he said she had lost skin about the size of a Silver Dollar above her eyebrows. He said Doc tors would work to slowly replace the skin to minimize scarring. Dusty Rescue workers who used Jack hammers and drills night and Day to Cut through solid Rock hoisted inc toddler to the surface at 8 . Friday and dozens of neighbors friends and onlookers cheered. The top three to networks broke into prime time programming to broadcast the moment. I did t have any dry eyes said police sol. Jeff bails. Jessica had fallen into the Well s 8-Inch opening wednesday morning while play ing with two other children in the Back Yard of an aunt s House where her Mother helped run a Small Day care Center. The Little girl spent Tsvi hours in the narrow Crevice without food or drink. Doctors decided against feeding her to see rescued on Page 28 Jessica Mcclure is rescued from Well. Inset shows her before the Accident. Nancy Reagan has breast removed Washington a doctors re moved Nancy Reagan s left breast sat urday after Laboratory tests revealed a Quarter Inch cancerous lesion and they said the first lady was Strong and Sta ble following the operation. President Reagan who resumed to the while House after spending More than seven hours with his wife made an of sign when asked How the first lady was doing. While walking to the residential quarters of the while House after stepping from his helicopter he said she s feel in just  earlier Reagan advised the team of doctors Al Bethesda naval Center Hospi Tal to Lake Good care of her after they informed him around 9 . That the tumor a common form of breast cancer was malignant. Later in the recovery room Reagan was quoted As telling his wife Honey i know you Don t feel like dancing Lei s hold  mrs. Reagan underwent a modified Rad ical Mastectomy immediately after the can cer was confirmed by Biopsy. The 66-year old first lady had chosen that procedure which involves the removal of inc entire breast and some Lymph nodes in the event a malignancy was found. While House spokesman Marlin Fitz water said the malignancy which measured about 7 Millimetres was a non invasive intr Aducal adenocarcinoma which is a common form of cancer and had not spread through the tissues. The spokesman said the surgery lasted see Nancy on Page 28 Campaign seeks to prevent Date rape b Janet d Acostino medical writer they arc introduced at a party and seem to nil it off right away. They talk. Drink some wine and then decide logo to a nearby disco. The dance floor is packed but they dance every song sometimes holding each other close. When the band stops playing she decides to take a taxi Home but he offers her a ride. She accepts. He walks her to the door of her apartment and she invites him in for a drink. They Sil on i he Couch and embrace and Iii. He becomes More amorous. Bul she says no. He tries to persuade her with words bul she still says no. He pushes on with his advances. The More she resists inc More physical he be comes eventually forcing her to have Intercourse. The woman has been raped. And although the imaginary scenario does not fit the stereotype of a Man jumping from inc Bushes to attack his victim the crime is just As serious. It is called Date rape or acquaintance rape and in happens More frequently than people might suspect. In an analysis of reported rapes in Usa eur. The majority of women said they knew their Pisl. Wit maj. Thomas Sprague chief of the usar eur crime prevention Branch. The victim knew the subject to some extent from either a handshake to cohabitation in 73 percent of a Prim Macly 100 cases randomly reviewed from the Branch s files he said. One of the specific things we were looking for was whether the victims knew their attackers we suspected they did in a great number of  he said. The anal Sis of tapes involving civil Ian and army members in Europe also found the crime was increasing in response inc crime prevention Branch  a nip i Swarc Nett Campaign in continued on Page 3  
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