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Nelson Mandela Hospitalized In South Africa

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Former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, has been hospitalized in a military hospital in Pretoria, undergoing a series of unspecified tests. Mandela, the nation’s first black president, has been in the hospital since early Saturday.
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