51.   Another TV programme showed the tearful mother of a soldier giving emotional thanks to Russian doctors arriving to tend the wounded.

52.   Chancellor Helmut Kohl told President Boris Yeltsin by phone Friday that two leading German cardiologists were prepared to assist Russian doctors during his heart operation later this month.

53.   The story rests on a Russian doctor who accompanied them to Bulgaria and claimed he had been trusted by the tsar to protect his youngest two children.

54.   Only Russian doctors are carrying out the heart bypass operation on President Boris Yeltsin Tuesday, without assistance from foreign specialists, the Kremlin said.

55.   Russian doctors quoted by the press Friday said he would have a heart bypass.

56.   Russian doctors quoted by the press Friday said the heart surgery which President Boris Yeltsin announced he is going to have will be a heart bypass.

57.   Russian doctors said Yeltsin was almost certain to have an artificial tube inserted in his chest to help blood reach the heart.

58.   Russian doctors would aim to ensure that his bodily functions were working as normally as possible at the time of the operation, he said.

59.   Several months ago, Russian military doctors removed a similar grenade that had smashed into the jaw of a soldier and failed to explode.

60.   Taking part were top Russian doctors and pioneering US heart surgeon Michael DeBakey.