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...barking out orders for feeding and clothing survivors. Numb with fatigue, he had no idea how many people in his area had died: "We have pulled 7,000 out of the rubble. Many were still alive." Many died instantly, said Dr. Robert Gale, who was also present at the Chernobyl aftermath. "Once rigor mortis set in, they were frozen in time. Just like at Pompeii, you could tell what they were doing when the quake struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Vision of Horror | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

Perestroika, now in its fourth year, seems stalled, and has yet to bring much improvement in economic conditions, with worsening shortages of food and consumer goods. The economy is afflicted by a $58 billion budget deficit, a $12.8 billion cleanup bill after Chernobyl, and serious losses in revenues from declining oil prices and the enforced drop in vodka sales. Now the billions of rubles that will have to be spent on reconstruction of an area about the size of Maryland must be figured in. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov admitted last week that the Soviet leadership "made a mistake" when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Vision of Horror | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...major domestic problem will be coping with the cost of the earthquake, likely to rise to the tens of billions of rubles. The long restoration of the quake-stricken region will drain money from an economy already reeling from a series of setbacks. The cleanup costs for the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster swallowed 8 billion rubles, about $12.8 billion. This year the Soviet budget is already expected to run a 36 billion-ruble deficit. The government has also suffered falling revenues from declining international oil prices and from its campaign to crack down on vodka consumption. Now the country faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union When the Earth Shook | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Boris Shcherbina, a deputy prime minister who directed the cleanup after the April, 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant accident, told Tass in Leninakan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Search for Quake Victims Continues | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

Among planes reaching Yerevan yesterday was one carrying Armand Hammer, the American industrialist who has done business with the Soviets for decades and helped after the Chernobyl disaster. Tass said he brought medical equipment and a check for $1 million from the World Vision Organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Search for Quake Victims Continues | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

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