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...experience--amplified by a hype machine that marries the age-old fascination with sex and violence to the modern miracle of high-tech communications--is unrivaled." Viewers of CNN apparently were so engrossed in courtroom testimony that when the channel switched to coverage of President Clinton's visit to Kiev, angry Bobbitt watchers clogged network phone lines, After all, how could international affairs even hope to compete with tales of rape and a severed penis...
Even in the middle of what should have been a heady European trip, a senior aide reported Clinton to be "vexed" and "frustrated." In Brussels, Prague, Kiev and Moscow he was winning favorable press coverage for his handling of foreign policy. But at every stop he kept hearing that awful word Whitewater to his obvious dismay. Presidential aides had fought to portray criticisms of Whitewater and related deals as partisan Republican sniping. But now nine Democratic Senators had joined the clamor for a special counsel to take an independent look...
...this, however, has been a prelude to the final act: Ukraine. Moscow now seeks to shortcircuit its largest neighbor's drive for independence. Economically, Russia has exacerbated Ukraine's internal crisis by withholding vital energy supplies. Politically, Yeltsin has waged a successful diplomatic campaign to isolate Kiev internationally in a dispute over former Soviet nuclear weapons...
Little progress has been made on cleaning up the surrounding region. There is no equipment to decontaminate topsoil, and contaminated groundwater is backing up behind a concrete barrier near the reservoir that supplies water to the 2.6 million residents of Kiev. More than 700 peasants evacuated in 1986 have quietly moved back to their farm plots, where they consume contaminated animals and produce. "They would rather die here than live somewhere else," says Alexander Borovoi, a Russian nuclear physicist in charge of the sarcophagus. Some returned to find their homes pillaged of religious art. Although contaminated with cesium...
...attempt to address these problems, Demydenko is working to convert the Kiev Mohyla Academy, founded in 1615, from a naval academy to a private university focusing on environmental issues. This project was made possible by an agreement signed last February between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ukrainian Ministry of Environmental Protection...