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Outside the courtroom, the surrounding Ukrainian countryside remained desolate 14 months after the Chernobyl accident. Farms were devoid of livestock, gardens were untended, and weeds grew above the windowsills of abandoned houses. The town of Pripyat, once home to some 50,000 workers, may never be resettled. Nearby, 27 villages are still so heavily contaminated that workers have abandoned cleanup efforts. Signs warned against driving on road shoulders, which could stir up radioactive dust, and army trucks made up most of the traffic on two-lane roads that once were thoroughfares to markets...
Little by little, though, the Soviets have been making progress. Two hamlets just beyond the 18-mile security zone were recently reoccupied, and families have started moving back to 16 other villages. The town of Chernobyl itself has been declared largely decontaminated. Thousands of cleanup workers reside in a temporary settlement optimistically named Zelony Mys (Green Cape...
...proceedings. The accident has even stirred up several nascent environmental movements. In Poland, for instance, an outlawed group called Freedom and Peace opposes construction of a nuclear power plant, the country's first, near Gdansk. Movement leaders have seen the future 400 miles across the Soviet border in Chernobyl, and they are convinced it will not work. The trial at Dom Kulturi is unlikely to reassure them...
General Manuel Antonio Noriega rules the Latin American country from behind the scenes as its military commander. Now some Panamanians are demanding that he make an exit. -- Six technicians go on trial in the Soviet Union to face charges that they caused the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. -- Tapes reveal a bizarre plot by Ferdinand Marcos to invade the Philippines...
What a difference a year makes. In 1986 memories of brutal hijackings were painfully fresh, and the headlines were filled with reports of a radioactive cloud drifting westward over Europe from the damaged Soviet nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Speculation abounded that Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi might take bloody revenge for the U.S. bombing of Tripoli on American tourists abroad. No wonder Americans looked closer to home for vacation spots. One year later, as fears about safety in Europe have faded, Americans are grabbing their passports, packing their guidebooks and crossing the Atlantic again in huge waves. Tour operators, airlines, hotels...