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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Little by little, though, the Soviets have been making progress. Two hamlets just beyond the 18-mile security zone were recently reoccupied, and families have started moving back to 16 other villages. The town of Chernobyl itself has been declared largely decontaminated. Thousands of cleanup workers reside in a temporary settlement optimistically named Zelony Mys (Green Cape...
...Thousands lined up to walk through a replica of the Soviet space station Mir. The tour took them into an impressive 100-ft. space structure composed of the Soyuz vehicle that sends two-man crews into space, the cylindrical space station itself, the Kvant astrophysics laboratory module and the Progress resupply vehicle for the station. The Soviets were not reluctant to declare that they will sell space to Westerners for commercial experiments on their space station. For those interested in even more daring ventures, the Soviets brought along a full-scale model of one of the pair of unmanned spacecraft...
...such survey, conducted by the U.S. Information Agency in late May, found that in Britain, France and West Germany, overwhelming majorities believe the U.S.S.R. deserves more credit than the U.S. for progress in arms control. Most respondents even believe, erroneously, that the Soviets originated the "zero option" proposal for eliminating mediumrange missiles in Europe...
...reported reversing the effects of Parkinson's in adult African green monkeys by implanting cells from the substantia nigra of monkey fetuses, and believe that fetal brain grafts offer a better bet for Parkinson's patients. Vanderbilt researchers, using fetal nerve-tissue implants in experiments with rats, also reported progress in reducing chemically induced symptoms of Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic brain disorder. Others expressed hope that once the underlying causes of Alzheimer's disease are determined, it too might be brought under control by implants of fetal tissue...
...limited program, recent reports of the progress of the draft Executive order indicate that coverage, which in earlier drafts had applied to all farmlands in use, would not extend to coconut and sugarcane areas--that is, to roughly 30 percent of all agricultural lands. Such a provision would doubtless reduce resistance from landowners affected; but for the farmers, nothing would be solved...