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...found that Ottawa rains carried six times as much radioactive iodine as is considered acceptable for drinking water. But experts said the finding posed no danger to Canadians, since standards are based on the risks over a lifetime's exposure. Meanwhile, federal officials have required all shipments of European fruit, vegetables and herbs to be held and tested. Canada also warned travelers to Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and parts of the Mediterranean to wash all fruit and vegetables and avoid drinking fresh milk...
...said experts had told the group that Yerevan was unlikely to be badly affected by fallout from Chernobyl. But as a precaution, she said, the delegates would not eat fruit or leafy vegetables during their trip...
...Austrian state of Carinthia asked that pregnant women and children under six remain indoors. Outdoor fruit and vegetable stands were instructed to wash and cover their produce. Officials warned Swedes and Norwegians to be careful about the water they drank. The British embassy in Moscow organized an airlift of more than 100 British students from the Soviet Union, and cautioned 30 who had been in Minsk when the nuclear cloud passed overhead to shower and wash their hair every two hours...
...that anyone has much time for foliage. Verbonich and his wife Linda spend most of the weekend contemplating fruit: the cherries, oranges, plums and lemons, plus elusive sevens, spinning behind the windows of their slot machines. Linda's hands work absently at the change bucket. She feeds the machine, lifts herself off the stool a bit to grasp the handle, and settles back with her weight on it, like a factory worker heaving open a start-up lever of a large turbine engine. Then, with the lights reflecting in her eyeglasses, she bounces up and down, patting the side...
France has also stopped importing New Zealand's canned kiwi fruit, and scattered reports suggest that fish, canned fruits and vegetables may be next on a growing list. So far, French officials have refused to make any comment on the embargoes...