Upbeat health report for Mandela on 95th birthday

Friday, July 19, 2013

JOHANNESBURG -- Hospital visitors say Nelson Mandela smiled and nodded Thursday -- his 95th birthday -- and South Africans celebrated upbeat reports about the former president's health after weeks of worrying that he was on the verge of death.

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