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The Government estimates that among 100,000 crew members who spend 20 years on an average route, such radiation will cause 600 "premature cancer deaths." By comparison, cancer from all causes may kill 22,000 of that same group. Frequent travelers who spend half as much time in the air...
Many Catholics see the election of Pope John Paul II and his support of Solidarity as the catalyst that gave Poles and other Eastern Bloc peoples the moral stamina to carry on the struggle. The persecuted religious leaders of the East Bloc certainly helped keep their people from despair. Indeed...
With each passing day, this vision of the apocalypse becomes more archaic. The Kremlin's allies, if they can still be called that, are not only abandoning communism; they are demanding the removal of Soviet troops. A delegation from Moscow was in Hungary last week and will be in Czechoslovakia...
At the same time that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is facing separatist challenges in several of his country's 15 republics, Eastern Europe is discovering that the ancient animosities suppressed for more than four decades by Moscow's harsh imperialism are rising again. These ethnic and nationalistic quarrels are the...
Moldavia too was forcibly incorporated in the U.S.S.R. after the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact. Ethnically, linguistically and historically, Moldavia is part of Rumania, and some Moldavians now talk of reunification. Despite the justice of such an aspiration, achieving it would set the dangerous precedent of changing Europe's postwar borders. Hungarians...