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...though the Soviets had several fatal accidents, some of the deaths caused by radiation poisoning from reactor malfunctions. Then the Soviet navy ran into a streak of bad luck. In 1983 a Charlie I class with a crew of 100 went down in the Pacific off the Kamchatka peninsula. In 1986 a Yankee I-class boat was lost east of Bermuda. With the sinking of the Mike-class vessel in April, a prototype that is believed to be the most advanced vessel built in the Soviet Union, the death toll for the decade took another leap...
...with teachers at School No. 514 and nurses' pay with the staff of City Hospital No. 53. He even dropped into a young couple's apartment for tea. That was the first of the walkabouts that have taken him, sometimes accompanied by Raisa, from Murmansk in the north to Kamchatka on the shores of the Pacific. On several of his tours he has displayed an easy informality and an almost impish distaste for ceremonial oratory. Entering the hall of the Starnikovsky Farm near Moscow to talk to livestock breeders last summer, he veered away from the row of seats...
...potential for a military confrontation in the Pacific. The U.S. Pacific Fleet now squares off against a Soviet force that is the largest of Moscow's four naval units. From headquarters in Vladivostok, the Soviet Pacific Fleet covers a 1,200-mile maritime zone that stretches south from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay, the vast airfield-and-port complex developed by the U.S. during the Viet Nam War. The Soviet fleet includes two small aircraft carriers, twelve nuclear-armed cruisers and 180 combat aircraft. On any given day, 25 to 30 Soviet ships are docked...
More important, there were unexpected Soviet failures to gloat over. An SS-N-8 missile, launched two weeks ago from a submarine in the Barents Sea and aimed at the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia, went astray and, in an obvious malfunctioning of both its guidance and selfdestruct systems, landed more than 1,500 miles off course, most probably in northeastern China. The Soviets insisted the missile had landed in their own territory...
Within days of her arrival she was reported to have fought bitterly with her son, a Moscow doctor. A few months later, her daughter, a geologist who spends most of her time on Kamchatka Peninsula in the Soviet far east, announced that she wanted no contact with her mother. Svetlana and Olga moved to Tbilisi, in Stalin's home republic of Georgia. In Gori, his birthplace, many still revere the dictator who brutally ruled the Soviet Union for 24 years...