Article: YELTSIN STEALS A PAGE OUT OF CLINTON'S BOOK.(Local)

Byline: Holger Jensen

So Hillary Clinton talks to the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt. Big deal.

Boris Yeltsin hasn't done much talking lately - laryngitis they say - but his staff regularly consults Czar Nicholas II, Lenin, Stalin and anyone else who might help Russia's president win re-election Wednesday.

The Kremlin makes no secret of the fact that Yeltsin's advisers are obsessed with the supernatural. They have hired soothsayers to prophesy election returns, astronomers to update the president's astrological charts and have even positioned Yeltsin's bed on a north-south axis for better luck.

Professional wizard Yuri Longo - whose ...

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