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Traveling in Italy, President Yeltsin again seemed confused and exhausted, as he had in Sweden last November. According to the London Times, on several occasions his aides had to prop him up. The Times also claimed the hotel staff had been ordered to remove the booze from his hotel mini-bar. The Economist, in an article stressing the president’s physical decay, called Yeltsin’s appearance in Italy "not too bad by recent standards." On the border