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Having felt the sting of its radiation as far away as France and Sweden, the West was more than happy to pick up the tab for taking Chernobyl offline in December. But the Ukrainian plant's sole surviving reactor is only one of many Soviet-era, RMBK-type reactors still operating throughout Central and Eastern Europe - and that's a problem that'll likely loom for decades. President Leonid Kuchma announced the plant's final closure Monday to coincide with President Clinton's visit to the Ukraine. Washington will provide some $78 million in aid to secure the reactor that...
...Sierra Leone's practice of using the services of a British mercenary firm. Now, though, there are rumors that the government wants to bring back Executive Outcome, the South African mercenary firm that had protected the diamond fields. There are also rumors that there may be Russian or Ukrainian mercenaries training the rebels...
...title character of this one-character play--an 80-year-old Jewish woman who tells the story of her life, from a Ukrainian shtetl to Warsaw during the Nazi years and at last to Miami Beach--Olympia Dukakis gives a magnificent performance. Sitting on a bench in a dimly lighted apartment, hands planted on her knees, she is warm and true, funny but free of shtick, and less maudlin than one might expect. So long as you accept that this rather too calculated monologue is occupying a Broadway stage where real plays used to roam, it's a moving evening...
...Ukraine. His father, the director of the Medical Institute in Lviv, was murdered in 1941 by the Soviet NKVD because he freed some students who had been arrested. Causa pietatis, Dan (who made it to the U.S. with his mother in 1949) became an intellectual leader of the Ukrainian diaspora, working to keep alive in exile the culture that the Soviets were doing their best to destroy at home. Danylo presided (as managing editor and later as editor in chief) over a massive five-volume Encyclopaedia of Ukraine, which he assembled, with loving, exhausting labor, between...
...Danylo Struk, who was my roommate many years ago when we were undergraduates at Harvard (Class of 1963), and who became a lifelong friend ("lifelong," alas, is the precise word here), amounted in himself to a one-man civilization - poet, scholar, Ukrainian patriot-in-exile, teacher, translator, editor, literary critic, art collector and chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto...