Kitty Dukakis’ Surgery Succeeds

Kitty Dukakis, wife of leading Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis, underwent successful major surgery today to remove two ruptured disks from her neck that had caused her severe pain, a hospital spokesman said.

Massachusetts General Hospital spokesman Martin Bander said “preliminary indications are that she is OK.” Kitty Dukakis, 51, underwent five hours of surgery, the spokesman said, to remove the damaged disks and replace them with bone taken from her hip. The Massachusetts governor cut short his presidential campaign in California on Thursday to be at his wife’s side at the hospital.