Word: diverticulum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brasilia. Then came word that Tancredo Neves, 75, the genial politician who was scheduled to don the green-and-yellow presidential sash in the modernistic Planalto Palace, had been hospitalized. Ten and one-half hours before his scheduled March 15 swearing-in, Neves underwent emergency surgery for Meckel's diverticulum, an intestinal ailment. The two-hour operation was a success, but the President-to-be was confined to his hospital...