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...draw up plans to provide early warning and detailed information about future accidents. While Soviet papers did not report the new death toll, some publications continued to complain about exaggerated foreign reports of the disaster and wildly distorted rumors. One tale making the rounds, according to the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta, was that vodka and red wine could cure the effects of radiation exposure. First Deputy Health Minister Oleg Shchepin called that boozy prescription dangerous nonsense...
...time the speech was reported in the weekly newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, Yevtushenko had fallen victim to the very timidity he had criticized. The journal deleted his references to Stalin's murderous rule and party favoritism. Yevtushenko professed himself unconcerned by the heavy-handed editing. Said he: "My words were addressed to writers, not the party. I just wanted them to speak their minds...
...Aksyonov, Voinovich, Kopelev, Orlova and several others have been forced to live abroad. Even the erstwhile hosts have been made unwelcome. Four prominent American publishers were refused visas to the Soviet Union, and Random House Chairman Robert L. Bernstein was the target of an anti-Semitic attack in Literaturnaya Gazeta...
Horrors! The stunt worked all too well. A Manhattan-based representative of Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta hopped on a plane for Vulcan. A Russian charity committee said it was willing to consider a donation to help reopen the Big Sandy. Said Robinette, aghast at what he had unleashed: "Lord, Lord, get me out of this mess." Happily, someone did. State Highway Commissioner Charles L. Miller suddenly announced a $500,000, one-lane bridge for Vulcan, to be built within a year. All of which caused the New York Times to suggest, tongue in cheek, that if the Soviets were...
...after Plyushch's press conference, Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta printed a derisive rebuttal of his statement, which suggests that Soviet authorities knew in advance what he was about to tell. Dismissing such accounts in the West as "dirty gambling on human tragedies," the Moscow literary journal defended the Soviet system of mental care by citing the cases of other dissidents who had been locked up in mental hospitals in the Soviet Union and were found to be truly sick when released to the West. The report was misleading: most of those cited by Literary Gazette were in good...