Chiang Gets Pacemaker
From Reuters
TAIPEI, Taiwan —
President Chiang Ching-kuo underwent heart surgery last week to install an artificial pacemaker, a government spokesman said Thursday. Chiang, 76, son of Chinese Nationalist wartime leader Chiang Kai-shek, suffers from diabetes and in the last four years has had surgery on both eyes.
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