FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERrand had been in office just six months when his doctor gave him the grim news: the leg and back pains he had been experiencing were due to a previously undiagnosed cancer of the prostate that had spread to his bones. The prognosis was not good. Half the men in Mitterrand's condition die within three years. Only 1 in 10 survives a decade or more.
But that's just what Mitterrand did. And his death two weeks ago--following a string of highly publicized prostate-cancer deaths that includes those of Telly Savalas, Don Ameche and Frank Zappa--served to underscore how...
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