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...main highway connecting Kabul to the Soviet Union, which Soviet troops had used to withdraw, remained open, according to Tass, the official Soviet news agency, and Bakhtar, the Afghan news agency, Tass said more than 100 trucks carrying Soviet food and supplies were bound for the Afghan capital...
...sensational account from the usually staid Soviet news agency TASS last week read like a Western tabloid: six men had miraculously been found alive in Armenia, 35 long days after an earthquake hit the Soviet republic and killed at least 25,000 people...
...canned goods. Akopyan's tale sparked a full- scale media blitz, and he was featured in news reports worldwide. But the daily Izvestia sensed a hoax and found holes in Akopyan's account; none of the other five "survivors," for example, could be found. At week's end TASS confessed it was unable "to confirm with full certainty the authenticity of the story...
Coffins were stacked in piles on nearly every street corner in Spitak, some cracked open to reveal arms and legs wrapped in plastic bags. Coffins lined the streets of other cities and towns throughout the stricken region. The Soviet news agency TASS said that as of Wednesday 21,755 bodies had been identified from the badly damaged cities of Leninakan and Kirovakan and from 48 villages that had been destroyed...
...opportunity to steal. Pravda said more than $400,000 in pilfered goods had been recovered and 150 looters had been arrested. But 20,000 tents bound for Leninakan disappeared. To prevent looting, a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew was imposed throughout Armenia, and troops patrolled the streets of Leninakan. TASS reported that a man was arrested in Kirovakan for stripping watches and earrings from the dead. Soviet soldiers were seen removing boots from the dead and trying them on for size. "We shouldn't hide the fact that all kinds of scum are coming to tragedy sites for an easy...