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...Elementary School No. 9 on Leninakan's Gorky Street, "the earthquake killed children on the spot during their classes," said a correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist youth newspaper. Police Sergeant Valeri Gumenyok and his men pulled 50 children's bodies from the wreckage of the building. The paper described an end-of-the-world scene of people huddled around bonfires, and roads out of the city clogged with fleeing residents. As workers tried to clear away fallen masonry, "you could hear the terrible cries of people waiting for help," wrote a reporter for Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper...
Heading the charge were three Soviet veterans, Vladimir Artemov, 23, Valeri Liukin, 21, and Dmitri Bilozerchev, 21. Coming into the Olympics, the favorite for the all-around title was Bilozerchev, the handsome, brooding Heathcliff of gymnastics who just three years ago almost lost a leg in a car accident. On the night of the all-around fight, Bilozerchev met expectations, outscoring both his teammates as he took 10s in three of the six events. But 50% of the all-around score carries over from the team competition, and there, Bilozerchev had faltered badly in one event, slamming into the high...
...mission in which they performed routine experiments with the two Mir cosmonauts, who are spending a year in space. Lyakhov, 47, and Mohmand, 29, an Afghan pilot, had returned to the two-stage Soyuz capsule for the three-hour trip back to the Soviet Union, leaving Physician Valeri Polyakov behind to continue monitoring the health of the station crew...
When Artists Valeri and Lidya Klever left Leningrad for the U.S. ten years ago, they left in anger. Soviet authorities had shut down exhibits of the couple's abstract paintings, which convinced the Klevers that they had to head for the West in search of artistic freedom. Last week the Klevers returned to the Soviet Union, sounding angrier than ever. While Valeri had at last been free to create, he had also managed to sell few works. That forced his wife to take menial jobs during an odyssey that led the Klevers from New York City to Maine to California...
...nearly 600 delegates to last week's symposium on the nuclear accident at Chernobyl were cordial, detached and scientific. After all, the Soviets had agreed to the extraordinary 62-nation conference, sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a spirit of international cooperation. Said Chief Soviet Delegate Valeri Legasov: "All our experts understood that the events that happened (at Chernobyl) concerned not just the Soviet Union but the whole world...