The World - News from Sept. 15, 1989

Mother Teresa was reported in serious condition in an intensive care unit in Calcutta, where doctors used external cardiac massage to help the 79-year-old Nobel laureate after she suffered a mild heart attack. The frail nun has been in Woodlands Nursing Home for 10 days with a heart problem, for which she has been under medication since 1983. Ashim Bardhan, head of the medical team treating her, said she had been improving until Wednesday evening, when she suffered a mild coronary seizure. He said an external pacemaker was sending small currents of electricity to stimulate her heart muscles and regularize her erratic heartbeat.