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Gorbachev's glasnost, though, was put to the test in April, when the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl, a then little-known town north of Kiev. At first the Soviet leader abandoned his open style. He dropped out of sight and did not comment publicly on the disaster for 18 days. When he finally reappeared, Gorbachev denounced the West for producing a "mountain of lies" about the accident. But soon glasnost was back; officials and the press began providing information on the accident to a degree unprecedented for Soviet journalism. Criticism diminished, and near...
Shultz and Nunn also said the Soviets, apparently mindful of the criticism after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, seemed to be cooperating in providing information about the accident...
...think they got badly burned at Chernobyl because you can hide these things no matter what," said Shultz, referring to the Soviets' delay in reporting that accident...
...Dread belfry. The Eyes of the Dragon, just completed, is an Arthurian sword-and-sorcery epic written for Naomi, who read Carrie and has since refused to venture into any of her father's other books. Tommyknockers, still being revised, is a sci-fi epic set in the post-Chernobyl era. "It's about how our ability to make gadgets outraces the moral ability" is all King is willing to disclose. Misery, just about completed, is a psychological novel "about a crazy nurse who captures her pet writer and hooks him on drugs after a car crash. He writes bodice...
...about differences in men's and women's salaries in the U.S. Marilyn Levinson of Erie, Pa., wanted the recipe for shchi, a Russian cabbage soup. Later Anderson took his wife to a restaurant and they ended up dancing with a group of Ukrainian tourists from, of all places, Chernobyl. Said Anderson: "I'm sure those people will go home and tell their friends that we're not all that...