Around the same time he broke the chair, his doctor told him he had type-2 diabetes and that the disease could kill him.

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He refused to let the job kill him either, delegating where he could and, in the long pauses of his working days, writing boyish love-letters to his wife.

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But only their senior abbot could do this and he told the soldiers they would have to kill him first.

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Mr Chavez, whom polls credit with twice as much support as any rival, claims much worse than this could be afoot: he has repeatedly said that his opponents may try to kill him.

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