More surgery for sniper victim
NZPA-Reuter Fort Wayne The black civil / rights leader, Vernon E. Jordan, who was wounded in a sniper attack on May 29, was taken back to surgery on Sunday night. He remained in a serious but stable condition, his doctors said yesterday. Dr Jeffrey Towles said Mr Jordan was operated on again because of a breakdown in an abdominal incision made in earlier surgery. Mr Jordan, aged .44, was back in his room later and was conscious.' : ;
The lawyer for Mrs Martha Coleman said his client had stayed in seclusion since the shooting of Jordan to avoid becoming a national figure. But she probably would have to come forward soon to tell her side of the story. Mr Charles F. Leonard said the results, of a lie detector. test had eliminated his client as a suspect in the case. Mr Jordan, the National Urban League president, is given a good chance of recovering from the shooting.
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