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...biggest problem is to encase the reactor, which is still emitting dangerous radioactive particles, in a concrete tomb. The Soviets have run short of cement and have had to install a ventilation system to prevent heat buildup, which might cause new fires and explosions. The Communist Party daily Pravda has criticized the slowness of the effort, pointing out that three other nuclear reactors located on the site cannot resume operation until the fourth is sealed. "Life cannot return to normal in the area until the tomb is built," said Pravda...
...democratizing devices. "The new communications technology has changed things completely," says one Moscow father of teenagers. "Tapes can be played over and over, exchanged, copied." In the '50s American moral vigilantes sometimes claimed that rock 'n' roll was the creation of Communist subversives out to undermine U.S. youth; today Pravda could make the counterclaim a lot more persuasively. Says U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Z. Wick, a former talent agent: "I would hope that American pop culture would penetrate into other societies, acting as a pilot parachute for the rest of American values...
Even the editor of Pravda said that American press does not go far enough in attacking the administration according to Brandt Ayers, publisher of The Anniston Star in Alabama. "We asked him if the Pravda ever criticized the Communist party," said Ayers. "He said no, but The New York Times never advocates communism...
Soviet newspapers last week were full of fresh reports about the Chernobyl accident. A story in Pravda, the Communist Party daily, quoted the eyewitness account of a control-room worker who described hearing two loud explosions and then seeing a fireball rise above the reactor building. Many stories strained to find positive details to hearten readers. Pravda, for example, cited evidence that life continued in the wake of the accident: "The nightingale concert over Pripyat goes on both night and day." Yet, in a demonstration of disdain for Western-style rock, Soviet officials did not publicly announce last week...
Legasov, deputy director of the Soviet Union's Atomic Energy Institute, said in an interview with the Communist Party newspaper Pravda that the emergency work during the disaster was done correctly, even though it was impossible to foresee the gravity of the disaster...