GORE VISITS HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER.

U.S. vice president Al Gore paid a visit on the evening of July 17 to Sergei Kovalev, Russia’s leading champion of human rights. Kovalev, who has been hospitalized since suffering a heart attack earlier this month, has spearheaded opposition in Russia to the war in Chechnya. (Reuter, July 17)

Russian Authorities Try to Preempt Terrorist Attacks.