1.   Kremlin aides insisted that this time it really was nothing more than a cold and that there were no plans to hospitalize the president.

2.   A spokesman for Boris Yeltsin on Wednesday angrily denied reports that the Russian president has been hospitalized.

3.   But Wednesday evening, doctors detected the first signs of pneumonia and decided to hospitalize the president.

4.   Doctors had said earlier that the president would be hospitalized for less than a week.

5.   It was the second time in four months that the president was hospitalized with a cardiac problem.

6.   The dollar got its initial boost during the European and U.S. trading day with the news that the Russian president had been hospitalized with acute heart trouble.

7.   The Kremlin, which said Wednesday night that the president had been hospitalized with early signs of pneumonia, confirmed Thursday that he had the illness.

8.   The Kremlin did not say if the president had been hospitalized and gave no further details.

9.   The president also was hospitalized with a bad cold for two weeks in December.

10.   The president also was hospitalized with a bad cold for two weeks last December.