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Boris Yeltsin's crisis of health is setting off an equally severe crisis of confidence among his closest advisers. After a nasty brush with pneumonia and a reported relapse into depression, the chances that the 66-year-old President can serve out the remainder of his four-year term have begun to look increasingly uncertain. And the more doubtful his survival becomes, the more furiously members of Yeltsin's inner circle feel they must scramble for a solution to keep themselves in power. The biggest problem they face is that if Yeltsin were to pass from the scene tomorrow...
DIED. FRANK TEJEDA, 51, U.S. Representative from Texas; of pneumonia after battling a brain tumor; in San Antonio. The Democrat rose from high school dropout to lawyer to first Congressman from the new Hispanic 28th District...
...summit. The meeting, scheduled for March 20-21, was originally set for Washington, but was moved to a site closer to Moscow out of concerns about the Russian President. The trip will be Yeltsin's first trip abroad in nearly a year, after heart ailments and pneumonia in the last six months. Although the meeting is partially designed to show that Yeltsin can still perform his duties, the summit will be more than a photo op. On the table: the impending eastward expansion of NATO and Russia's finances. "The top issue on the agenda will be negotiations...
...accounts, Russian president Boris Yeltsin is on the mend. He was released from the hospital last week to continue his recovery from a bout of pneumonia at his dacha outside Moscow. Compared with the serious heart problems and the complex bypass surgery he endured last fall, his present illness seems minor...
...this, Yeltsin's pneumonia seems to have produced a striking side effect: a collapse of confidence among his aides and top supporters. When Yeltsin faced surgery last fall, his entourage declared its support for the man and expressed enthusiasm about the future. But when pneumonia was diagnosed in early January, "a lot of the President's supporters and aides said, 'That's it,'" recalls a Yeltsin adviser. Some prominent supporters are quietly distancing themselves from the President; others are gravitating toward people like Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov or Alexander Lebed. There have been some nasty bursts of political infighting within...