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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 4, 1990                   TAG: 9004040794
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: WINCHESTER                                LENGTH: Short

HARRY BYRD JR. HAS HEART BYPASS SURGERY

Doctors at the Winchester Medical Center said they expect former U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. to make a full recovery from heart bypass surgery.

Byrd, 75, was recovering Tuesday from the surgery performed Monday. He suffered a mild heart attack March 17 and entered the Winchester Medical Center on March 29.

Byrd was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1965 when his father stepped down because of ill health and remained until 1982, when he retired. He was elected as a Democrat in 1966, and re-elected as an independent in 1970 and 1976.

Byrd is chairman of the board of Byrd Newspapers, which publishes The Winchester Star and other newspapers in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. - Associated Press 


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