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Dear Rolf: We heard about Chernobyl, and we certainly hope you and your family are all right. I'm sure you'll understand why we won't be dropping in to see you in Stockholm next month after all. With those crazy hijackers, airport bombers and high prices, we're staying home this year. Besides, Europe may be exciting, but Yosemite in the moonlight can be pretty appealing...
Armand Hammer's memoir of his 88 tumultuous years begins near the end, with accounts of his part in 1986 negotiations to clear the way for U.S. physicians to help Chernobyl's victims, and then in freeing hostage U.S. Journalist Nicholas Daniloff and a would-be Soviet emigre, Geneticist David Goldfarb. These incidents demonstrate his unusual role as a back-channel conduit between U.S. and Soviet officials. They also reflect the pragmatic approach Hammer takes toward the Soviets, his business partners on and off since the early 1920s. Readers will search in vain for indignation about the Soviet record...
...Director Viktor Bryukhanov, Chief Engineer N. Fomin and a deputy chief engineer identified only as Dyatlov. The names were virtually unaccompanied by biography except for the charge against them: "criminal negligence" in connection with the explosion last year that ripped apart Reactor No. 4 near the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl. Maximum penalty: 15 years in jail...
...since the world's worst civilian nuclear accident, Moscow has been slowly fixing blame for the disaster, which killed 31 people, hospitalized hundreds and caused severe environmental damage. Until last week no one had been charged with a crime. The trial starts next month in the building that was Chernobyl's cultural center before the town was evacuated...
...take the Soviets, who are making so many concessions on arms control ((NATION, April 27)), at face value? The U.S. cried out over Chernobyl but suffered little from the effects. In the Soviet Union, the situation is quite different. Soviet politicians must live with the fear that Chernobyl generated, and it is possible that this accident triggered a change in their thinking about the contamination that would result from nuclear war. The Soviets are scared. They have been to the brink of hell and want to walk away...