31.   Their ailing leader, Wilde Almeda, waved weakly from a stretcher as dozens of supporters cheered.

32.   Traditional bands played as the ailing leader, wearing his trademark leopard-skin cap, descended smiling and waving from his chartered jet from southern France.

33.   Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev on Sunday called on ailing Russian leader Boris Yeltsin to quit.

34.   In France, an aide to Mobutu was reported to have said the ailing Zairean leader, convalescing after cancer surgery, will return to his country next week.

35.   A man was arrested there in May for illegally publishing a biography of the ailing leader written by his daughter Deng Rong.

36.   Ailing paramount leader Deng Xiaoping recently received senior Chinese officials and reiterated support for his anointed successor Jiang Zemin, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Saturday.

37.   But HAMAS officials have said they cannot trust statements by their ailing spiritual leader as long as he is in Israeli hands.

38.   Doctors attending to Deng Xiaoping have given the ailing Chinese paramount leader until August at the latest to live, a Hong Kong report said Thursday.

39.   Israeli Internal Security Minister Avigdor Kahalani recommended on Tuesday that the ailing spiritual leader of the radical Islamic movement HAMAS be freed from an Israeli jail.

40.   Kabila who has so far refused to talks with the ailing leader made the proposal in an interview with Belgian state television RTBF.