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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 24, 1990                   TAG: 9003242542
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RICHARD PRYOR WAS IN GOOD SPIRITS AND MAKING

Richard Pryor was in good spirits and making jokes about his plight Friday in Brisbane, Australia, after being hospitalized following a minor heart attack.

Pryor, 49, was listed in stable condition at Wesley Hospital, hospital spokeswoman Janice Wyatte said.

Prior was admitted to the hospital three days ago suffering from chest pain and was later diagnosed as having suffered a minor heart attack.

Pryor was in Australia on vacation. He had planned to go fishing on the Great Barrier Reef for marlin and then planned to go to New Zealand to fish for trout. Pryor is scheduled to start filming "My Silent Partner" with Gene Wilder in May.

Patricia Kluge, whose husband, John, was ranked America's richest man by Forbes magazine, said his billions have not changed her life dramatically.

"Even though I'm aware that we live a magnificent life and we have magnificent friends around the world . . . I'm still my mother's daughter, my brothers' sister and my family's child," she said Thursday. "I still see myself as the girl I always was."

The one-time model married Kluge in 1981. They have lived a largely secluded life on a palatial Albemarle County estate. Kluge surpassed Wal-Mart executive Sam Walton as Forbes' richest man last year.

The Duchess of York gave birth to a 7-pound, 1 1/2-ounce daughter by Caesarian section Friday night, and mother and child are both well, London's Portland Hospital announced.

It was the second child and second girl for the 30-year-old duchess and her husband Prince Andrew, and is the sixth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II.

The new baby, daughter of the queen's second son, is sixth in line to the British throne after her sister, Princess Beatrice of York, who was born Aug. 8, 1988.

The Caesarian section was carried out because the baby was in a breech position, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said. "It was the wrong way round," he said.

The duchess, the former Sarah Ferguson, had spent the last week at Buckingham Palace in London instead of at her country home. She arrived at the hospital nearly four hours earlier in a chauffeur-driven car and entered through a side entrance, avoiding press photographers waiting at the front.

No name was announced immediately for the new baby, but she will be known as Her Royal Highness, Princess (baby's name) of York.

Andrew's elder brother Prince Charles, 41, is first in line to the throne, followed by his sons Prince William and Prince Harry of Wales. Then comes Andrew, 30, then Beatrice.

The queen's unmarried youngest son, Edward, 26, is now seventh in line of succession. Her 39-year-old daughter Anne, the Princess Royal, is eighth and has a son and daughter, Peter and Zara, who are ninth and 10th.



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