Woman offers heart to Yeltsin

MOSCOW - A Caucasus woman is ready - quite literally - to give her heart to President Yeltsin if doctors ever decide he needed…

MOSCOW - A Caucasus woman is ready - quite literally - to give her heart to President Yeltsin if doctors ever decide he needed a transplant, Itar Tass news agency said yesterday. Ms Zinaida Boliyeva (46), made her offer at the office of the government party, Our Home is Russia, in the autonomous region of North Ossetia.

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