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...West Berlin in order to avoid confrontations with the East German border guards. Last week the East Germans climbed down from their original stand. The Foreign Ministry announced that diplomats in East Berlin would receive new identity cards that are to be shown when the officials cross between Soviet- occupied East Berlin and the Western sector. The government insisted that there had been a misunderstanding and that the passport requirement had been only a temporary measure. While that matter appears to have been settled, an attempt by the East Germans to stamp courtesy visas in the passports of diplomats visiting...
...ever. On this and the following pages, TIME publishes the first photographs to appear in the U.S. of the ruined nuclear plant, the cleanup operation and the surrounding countryside. One of the few Americans who have seen Pripyat is Dr. Robert Gale, a bone- marrow specialist who helped Soviet doctors cope with the Chernobyl disaster, which so far has cost 26 lives. ''It's a very dramatic thing to see a partially destroyed nuclear power plant,'' Gale told reporters after taking a helicopter tour of the scene. ''The damage itself doesn't appear to be that great. A short distance...
Ever since the disaster, rumors have swirled throughout the country: that Chernobyl survivors could spread radiation like a contagious disease; that victims have been placed in lead coffins and buried in unusually deep graves; that vodka and red wine are effective antidotes to radiation. During a visit to Budapest, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told Hungarian factory workers, ''Chernobyl has warned us once again: man has set in operation a really fantastic force that must be strictly controlled.'' It was a telling message that surely reverberated last week through the lifeless silence of Pripyat...
...Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. could entail an intercontinental blitzkrieg: thousands of missiles launched from enemy territory, letting loose tens of thousands of deadly warheads surrounded by a nebula of hurtling decoys and debris. In half an hour, this lethal ''threat cloud'' would be over the U.S., raining destruction on cities and military targets alike. Trying to stop this deluge would require enormous technological breakthroughs in at least four areas: sensors, lasers, particle beams and computer programming. Should such advances occur, SDI proponents argue, a reasonably effective Star Wars defense would reduce to virtually zero the number of Soviet...
...contrary to the White House view of the matter. Maybe it's his view, but I can't understand the rationale for it.'' The rationale, according to those who advocate a system to protect silos, is that they are now vulnerable to a pre-emptive attack by the Soviets' vast arsenal of fast, accurate warheads. At the conference, Walter Slocombe, who during the Carter Administration held a Pentagon post comparable to the one now occupied by Perle, agreed that ''in principle'' defending silos is ''not a bad idea.'' But, he argued, there are cheaper and more reliable ways to defend...