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Rescue workers put out a frantic call for heavy equipment to help in the search for people who might be trapped. But Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, in charge of the rescue effort, admitted, "There is a shortage of equipment." The need was critical. "Every hour of delay means another 20 dead out of every thousand buried," said Soviet Health Minister Yevgeni Chazov. Doctors from several sister republics were rushed into the region to minister to 19,000 injured people, nearly a third of them crowding hospitals in Yerevan and neighboring towns. Their efforts were hindered by a desperate lack...
Four days earlier, the Kremlin had dispatched three Politburo members to the Baltic region to head off dissent on the constitutional package. While Vadim Medvedev, party secretary for ideology, visited factories in Latvia, and Politburo member Nikolai Slyunkov engaged in street debates in Lithuania, former KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov confronted the restive Estonians. "You can achieve sovereignty," he warned during a factory visit, "but you can lose everything else...
...within the collective Soviet leadership. Sergei's tale is also a parable of treachery. Even Anastas Mikoyan, then Soviet President and a putative Khrushchev ally, comes off as a bet hedger who bows to pressure from a web of plotters that includes Presidium ((now called Politburo)) members Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny and Mikhail Suslov, Deputy Premier Alexander Shelepin and KGB chief Vladimir Semichastny...
...Sergei Nikitovich. This is Vasily Ivanovich Galyukov. I'm the former chief of security for Nikolai Grigoriyevich Ignatov ((President of the Russian Republic)). I've been trying to reach Nikita Sergeyevich all summer. I have to tell him something very important...
...Soviet care and feeding of athletes at times looks enviable, it is far from perfect. For one thing, it can be ruthless. After Kayaker Nikolai Oseledetz shared victory in the four-man team, 10,000-meter event at the 1986 world championships, he asked for a Moscow apartment and was told he would get one. After he was cut from the national team the next year, he was brusquely informed no more flats were available and continued to reside, apart from his wife of five years and son, in a drab room he shares with another kayaker. That separation...