STAVROPOL OFFICIALS LACK FUNDS TO FIGHT POLIO EPIDEMIC.

Medicalofficials in Stavropol told Trud August 17 that they lackthe funds to immunize the local population against the spreadof a polio epidemic from neighboring Chechnya. They laid partof the blame for this state of affairs on the costs of recoveringfrom Shamil Basayev’s hostage raid on Budennovsk, costs the localdoctors said Moscow had promised to cover, but so far had notdone so.

Deputies from Russia’s Northwest Meet to Draft Common Program.