Yeltsin to Take Time Off to Get Well
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From Times Wire Reports
Boris N. Yeltsin’s doctor said pneumonia will keep the Russian president away from the Kremlin for the rest of the month. The doctor revealed that Yeltsin refused to be hospitalized early in the week, when X-rays showed the first signs of pneumonia. He gave in only after his condition worsened. Yeltsin is expected to be released from the hospital in about three days but will then need three weeks of rehabilitation, Dr. Sergei Mironov said.
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