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...glasnost, or openness, took hold. Studio audiences were chosen at random by Donahue staffers (accompanied by a Soviet escort) from grocery stores, movie houses, skating ponds and other locations around Moscow, and no restrictions were placed on the questions asked. Donahue also became the first Western journalist to visit Chernobyl since the nuclear accident there last spring. His crew got footage of the crippled reactor No. 4, as well as of a still deserted village that was evacuated immediately after the disaster...
...Consider Chernobyl. Had this misfortune occurred in the Stalin era, I am sure that our press would have immediately hinted at the possibility of an American conspiracy. That was the case in the early postwar years when a poor harvest in the Ukraine was blamed on Americans who supposedly conspired to put Colorado beetles into the fields. But our press did not make a secret of Chernobyl. Those responsible for the tragedy have been identified. Chernobyl has been opened to foreigners, including the American Dr. Robert Gale...
...widely heralded mercy mission after the nuclear-plant disaster in Chernobyl last spring, Dr. Robert Gale of UCLA and three colleagues flew to the Soviet Union and worked tirelessly to save the radiation victims. Virtually ignored in the reports from the scene was the fact that Soviet physicians and Gale tried a controversial new technique on six of the most severely irradiated Chernobyl workers: fetal-cell surgery. In a desperate attempt to reconstitute the blood-forming tissues of these victims, the doctors transplanted liver cells from human fetuses aborted in the first months of pregnancy...
...explosion at the Soviet nuclear plant in Chernobyl last April sent a shudder through the Hanford authorities. The Washington facility is the only U.S. Government-owned nuclear plant that uses graphite, as Chernobyl did, to control the atomic reaction. Also, Hanford is one of the few U.S. nuclear plants that, like Chernobyl, do not have a protective dome to prevent the release of accidental radiation. The Department of Energy appointed a commission to re-evaluate Hanford's safety, and the panel declared last month that an accident like the Chernobyl explosion was impossible. It added, however, that the reactor should...
...millions more rethinking their private lives. The epidemic of drugs became more sobering than ever, as the young turned to an addictive and unusually noxious boiled-down form of cocaine known as crack. One atomic nightmare came true and others were awakened when a Soviet atomic power reactor at Chernobyl, 80 miles north of Kiev, exploded and then kept burning for several days, a man-made disaster that could cause as many as 5,000 premature deaths by radiation-induced cancer. It was history's worst nuclear accident...