CHECHEN CONTINUES HUNGER STRIKE.

Khamad Kurbanov, the Chechen"representative" in Moscow who was arrested during theBudennovsk hostage crisis, continues his hunger strike, his sistertold Echo radio July 1. Prison doctors have not visited him, shesaid, and his lawyer continues to seek his release, possibly underthe terms of the amnesty Boris Yeltsin reportedly has signed forparticipants in the Chechen fighting.

West Expands Program to Keep Russian Nuclear Scientists atHome.