Word: komsomolskaya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near accident at a similar reactor in 1976 was hushed up. Most disturbing is the contention that safety violations are still going on. Budko and journalist Vladimir Kolinko, for example, say that food grown in contaminated soil is still being distributed to children, among others. And last week Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Moscow daily, published a story by Vladimir Lipsky, president of the Byelorussian branch of the Soviet Children's Fund, charging that infant disease is on the rise and that officials have authorized construction of 43 kindergartens in affected areas...
Earlier in the year, the newspaper Socialist Industry reported an "encounter" between a milkmaid in the region of Perm and a cosmic creature that looked like a man but was "taller than average with shorter legs." Last week the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda declared that not only had an Abominable Snowman been caught stealing apples in the Saratov region but researchers had "registered the influence of energies" at a site in Perm, leading a geologist to conclude that they had discovered a landing field for flying saucers. The same story transcribed a telepathic discourse between Pavel Mukhortov, a journalist from...
...begin this week, if all goes according to plan. At precisely 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, Lieut. General Boris Gromov, the commanding officer of Soviet troops in Afghanistan, will walk alone across that steel bridge into Termez, the final Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan. According to the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Gromov will then deliver a short, private speech that "would not be written down or listened to." Then he will continue on his way, "without looking back...
Physicists and chemists can earn the ultimate recognition: a Nobel Prize. Why not accord the same honor to environmental scientists? At the conference, the proposal was backed by everyone from U.S. Senator Albert Gore to Vasili Peskov, a correspondent for the Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. Peskov | suggested that the first environmental Nobel be given posthumously to Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring helped alert the world to the pollution threat...
...Soviets, aided by an outpouring of worldwide concern, sought to shoulder the burden of their great tragedy. It was bitter irony that a leader who had just traveled half a world to talk of peace should return to a land that was, in the words of a Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent, "like coming into a war, a cruel and modern...