31.   Yeltsin has been a part-time president for months as his health has declined.

32.   A torrent of books, films and exhibitions has fed the image-building exercise which has gathered pace even as his health is declining.

33.   China reaffirmed Thursday that paramount leader Deng Xiaoping was not dying, despite statements by one of his daughters last week that his health was declining daily.

34.   Their health had seriously declined recently but the penal authorities refused to hospitalize them, the OEDH said.