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...weekly newspaper. Under the headline THE BIG LIE, the paper reported on a round-table discussion it had organized on the Chernobyl issue. The party officials, journalists and lawmakers who took part recited a litany of accusations against such prominent citizens as former Ukrainian party boss Vladimir Shcherbitsky; Yevgeni Chazov, the Soviet Minister of Health; Anatoli Aleksandrov, former head of the Soviet Academy of Sciences; and Yuri Izrael, chairman of the State Committee on Hydrometeorology...
Others who accompanied Gorbachev to the scene included Russian federation Premier Alexander V. Vlasov, Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov, and Health Minister Yevgeny I. Chazov...
...still living out in the open though there is an abundance of tents?" Some of the homeless spend their nights huddled over bonfires. Even a Communist Party commission report lashed out at the poor organization, noting that "in a number of localities food is distributed sporadically." Health Minister Yevgeni Chazov urged that a national body be set up to handle major disasters...
...search for people who might be trapped. But Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, in charge of the rescue effort, admitted, "There is a shortage of equipment." The need was critical. "Every hour of delay means another 20 dead out of every thousand buried," said Soviet Health Minister Yevgeni Chazov. Doctors from several sister republics were rushed into the region to minister to 19,000 injured people, nearly a third of them crowding hospitals in Yerevan and neighboring towns. Their efforts were hindered by a desperate lack of antibiotics, disposable syringes and blood supplies. About 6,500 Soviet soldiers were dispatched...
Health Minister Yevgeny I. Chazov estimated the tremor killed up to 60,000 people...