Iconic Leftist lashes out at the truthA doctor who said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had only two years to live has fled the country saying he fears for his life.
Medical officials said police had visited Dr Salvador Navarrete's office after his comments were published last week. The doctor said that President Chávez had a very aggressive form of cancer.
On Thursday, Mr Chávez returned from a medical check-up in Cuba saying he was cured.
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bbc.co.uk)


On this day: October 22First U.S. casualties in Vietnam (1957)
President Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and orders a naval "quarantine" (1962)
The U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority decertifies PATCO for its illegal strike the previous August (1981)
b: Daniel Boone (1734), John Reed (1887), Bobby Seale (1936)

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