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                         Doctors: Mandela 'Much Better'

   South Africa says former president Nelson Mandela is making "steady
   improvement" a week after being hospitalized with pneumonia.
   A statement from President Jacob Zuma`s office Wednesday said Mr.
   Mandela`s doctors are reporting he is responding to treatment and
   "doing much better" than when he arrived last week.
   The 94-year-old Nobel Peace laureate was admitted late last Wednesday,
   his third hospitalization in four months.
   Mr. Mandela has been vulnerable to respiratory problems since
   contracting tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment for fighting
   apartheid, South Africa`s white racist rule.
   He became South Africa`s first black president in 1994.
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