Winnie Mandela in Hospital; News Blackout Ordered

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —  Winnie Mandela was in a hospital today and a news blackout was clamped on her illness two days after she defied a gag order and vowed revenge for blacks slain in riots against the white-ruled government.

Mandela, 51, was taken into the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in Johannesburg Wednesday night. Her lawyer, Ismail Ayob, said she had not been feeling well.

Nurses at the hospital said they had been ordered to give no details of her condition and said she was accepting no visitors or phone calls.

Mandela, wife of jailed black guerrilla chief Nelson Mandela and herself a leader of great stature among South African blacks, on Tuesday brazenly defied banning orders against her to speak at a mass funeral of riot victims.