AILING YELTSIN STILL EXPECTED TO WIN ELECTION.(GENERAL NEWS)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: July 3, 1996 | Copyright information

Byline: Knight-Ridder News Service

MOSCOW< -- Russian voters seem to prefer reformer in questionable health to a robust, but unreconstructed, Communist.

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At the end of a two-week runoff campaign marked by political upheaval and intrigue inside the Kremlin, a sickly and isolated Boris Yeltsin goes into today's presidential voting as the favorite to win a four-year term at the helm of this troubled nuclear power.

Although a my...

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