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castrohealth060801.appHeader = "FACT FILE | Castro's health a subject of secrecy, rumors";
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castrohealth060801.rows[i++] = new Array("1985","Castro gives up cigars on health grounds.");
castrohealth060801.rows[i++] = new Array("April 20, 1994","Havana denies reports that Castro had suffered a serious health problem such as a heart attack or brain hemorrhage.");
castrohealth060801.rows[i++] = new Array("Sept. 1, 1997","Castro reappears in public to dispel rumors spurred by his unusually low public profile that he suffered a mild stroke.");
castrohealth060801.rows[i++] = new Array("July 1998","Cuban Elizabeth Trujillo, claiming to be a doctor who treated Castro before defecting, says from Costa Rica that he is suffering from a potentially fatal brain disease. Incensed, Castro denies the report, which is later found to be made up by Trujillo.");
castrohealth060801.rows[i++] = new Array("June 23, 2001","Two hours into a speech under the sun at a rally just outside Havana, Castro faints for a few seconds and slumps into the lectern. He is revived in an ambulance and returns seven minutes later to proclaim, &#147;I&#146;m fine&#148; and blame his lapse on heat and exhaustion.");
castrohealth060801.rows[i++] = new Array("June 29, 2001","In first open-air appearance after fainting a week before, Castro leads 40,000 in anti-U.S. demonstration and proclaims his health &#147;better than ever.&#148;");
castrohealth060801.rows[i++] = new Array("May 14, 2004","Leading an anti-Bush march in Havana, Castro looks frail and appears to walk with difficulty, leaning on a fellow marcher.");
castrohealth060801.rows[i++] = new Array("Oct 20, 2004","Castro trips and breaks his left knee and right arm after a speech on the steps of Che Guevara mausoleum in Santa Clara. Some details are issued: he shattered his knee cap in eight pieces and suffered a hair-line fracture in arm. Castro refuses tranquilizers and general anesthetic during the three-hour operation to rebuild the knee with titanium thread, telling Cubans he is fully in command of government affairs.");
castrohealth060801.rows[i++] = new Array("July 31, 2006","Castro delegates government functions provisionally to his brother and designated successor, Raul Castro, after undergoing intestinal surgery.");

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