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Three Secret Service agents testified before a federal grand jury yesterday, and the surprisingly swift development captured the leads at all three papers--the Washington Post , the New York Times , and the Los Angeles Times . The agents were cleared to testify when Chief Justice William Rehnquist denied a last-ditch DOJ appeal to stay their testimony.
Anders offered upsetting details: A child's mysterious life-threatening disease misdiagnosed; terminal cancer patients denied last-ditch bone-marrow transplants; doctors who watch bottom lines instead of blood pressures; nurses who scan spreadsheets instead of bedsheets ...
But, notes the paper, there is a new wrinkle too: the State Department has ruled out any last-ditch negotiations.
The retreat ended in 1938 with the Nationalist government dug in behind the gorges of the Yangzi River, in the last-ditch capital of Chongqing.
During Vietnam, it was a last-ditch appeal by people who generally had supported the war for years.