Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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China's looks like a discount warehouse, complete with piles of rugs and gewgaws. Inside the Soviet Union's pavilion, there are models of satellites and space stations, a huge pond on which a few little ships make desultory voyages, and a large relief map of the U.S.S.R., with lights pinpointing major cities and prompting a sense of unfortunate irony. In each group there is almost always some black humorist who asks, "Is Chernobyl the one that's glowing brightest?" The American pavilion, dedicated at the last moment to the seven astronauts killed in the Challenger disaster, deals exclusively with...
...Bountiful, a film in which the redoubtable Geraldine Page, who won an Oscar for it this spring, does the bravura acting. Page is an old woman who wants to see her hometown before she dies. De Mornay plays the wife of a soldier, who meets Page in a bus station. She sits primly with her handbag in her lap and leaves the big, round gestures to Page. The contrast is expert moviemaking...
...days his silence resounded around the world. Then finally last week Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev publicly acknowledged the gravity of the April 26 accident that destroyed a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power station in the Ukraine and spread radioactive fallout across the globe. "For the first time ever," Gorbachev declared on Soviet TV, "we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy...
Packed trains from the beleaguered Ukrainian capital streamed into Moscow during the week. Many Kiev passengers were arriving to join families for Friday celebrations of Victory Day, a national holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, but many others were fleeing radiation from Chernobyl. Spokesmen at Moscow's Kievsky Station said extra trains had to be added to handle the crush. Said a Kiev passenger who arrived with two young children and identified herself only as Svetlana: "We started to believe that it might be dangerous for our children at home. They can stay with their grandmother until we know...
...which Shcherbina spoke was the first formal briefing since the accident began. Officials conceded that while the accident occurred at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, some 36 hours passed before the evacuation of the 49,000 residents in the vicinity of Pripyat, the settlement that houses power station workers, their families and others. Shcherbina said that the accident probably started with a chemical explosion. He also revealed that two fire fighters died battling the blaze in Unit No. 4, and 18 of the 204 people hospitalized with radiation sickness since the accident were in grave condition...