81.   But he was dogged by reports of poor health and even a heart operation.

82.   Chinese President Jiang Zemin congratulated Boris Yeltsin on his successful heart bypass operation Tuesday and said he looked forward to meeting the Russian president again.

83.   Carrasco has undergone various heart operations.

84.   Castoriadis died late Friday night after failing to recover from a heart operation, his friends and family said.

85.   Complications arose from a heart operation while visiting the city.

86.   Doctors have completed the first heart transplant operation in Japan in three decades and also the first under a new law recognizing brain death.

87.   Doctors said the heart bypass operation could take up to eight hours.

88.   Doctors will go ahead with a heart bypass operation on President Boris Yeltsin, presidential sources said after a key consultation Wednesday.

89.   Doctors have known that people often lose some of their mental sharpness immediately after a heart operation, but many seemed to recover fairly quickly.

90.   Doctors in Moscow were to examine President Boris Yeltsin on Thursday and possibly set a date for his heart operation, the Interfax news agency said.