The World - News from Aug. 21, 1988
A Swiss lung specialist has examined jailed South African black nationalist Nelson R. Mandela and says he is responding well to treatment for tuberculosis, Cape Town’s Tygerberg hospital announced. The hospital did not say when the examination by Prof. Heinrich Hertzog, president of the European Society of Pneumology, took place or at whose request. A hospital statement said Mandela was diagnosed as suffering from a tubercular pleural effusion on Aug. 13 and that a lung was drained. Mandela, 70, is serving a life sentence for plotting to overthrow white rule.
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