The World - News from June 3, 1988

Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, 62, has a large and probably incurable stomach cancer that has spread to both lobes of his liver, and doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are to decide today whether to perform exploratory abdominal surgery early next week, according to Duarte’s personal physician. Dr. Benjamin Interiano said Duarte is aware of the outlook but remains hopeful. “His spirits are unbelievable,” the physician said. After tests in Washington with a magnetic resonance imaging scan, Duarte told reporters: “One thing is assured. I’ll fight it out because I believe in God.”