Bhopal, India December 7, 1984. An Indian woman cradles her baby blinded by poisonous gas which leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in central India. Many people suffered blindness, eye ulcers, and eye irritation. Doctors also reported stillbirths, and said long-term effects could include permanent blindness, partial paralysis, lung,liver and kidney damage. Loma Linda, California, November, 1984. Baby Fae listens to her mother's voice over the telephone just 13 days after the infant's historic heart transplant at Loma Linda University Medical Center. The baby was born with a deformed heart and without a transplant she had a very small chance of surviving. Doctors decided to experimentally replace Baby Fae's deformed heart with that of a baboon. The United States did well in the Summer Olmpics, winning 83 gold medals,61 silver, and 30 bronze. Mary Lou Retton won the all-around gold medal and led the gymnastics team to a silver medal: she also won bronze medals for the floor exercise and the uneven parallel bars and took a silver medal for the vault. The Soviet Union and other Communist countries boycotted the Summer Olympics. Current Event 127
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