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Within 30 seconds of the nuclear blast last Wednesday, a phone rang in the control room 30 miles away. Soviet Scientist Viktor Mikhailov picked it up. He punched the air to register glee at receiving precise information on the bomb yield; the control room burst into applause. The underground test the group was celebrating, however, was American, held at remote Pahute Mesa, Nev. Seven Soviets were in the control room to gauge whether measuring devices accurately calculated how powerful the explosion had been...
...giddy moment, at least, belief seemed almost respectable. "It's like a honeymoon. We feel drunk and hope we don't ever wake up," enthused Father Viktor Petluchenko, a teacher from Odessa assigned to shepherd the international church guests. "From our TV screens we heard that the church is the heart of our nation and we need it. Can you imagine? It's wonderful...
Chief U.S. negotiator Max Kampelman and Soviet negotiator Viktor P. Karpov signed another document at the Soviet mission that guarantees any futuristic weapons developed in the intermediate-range also would be banned under the treaty...
There were other setbacks. Alexander Fadeev, a Soviet skater who had been touted for the bronze, stumbled twice, enabling his younger teammate, Viktor Petrenko, to take the medal. And Canadian Kurt Browning braved the one quadruple jump of the Olympic competition, only to fall. U.S. Skater Christopher Bowman finished a solid seventh, and Teammate Paul Wylie, who recovered from two early spills to hand in a graceful performance, placed tenth...
...hard-line former Leningrad party boss who was once thought to be Gorbachev's chief rival, had apparently given up on winning the top job for himself. But at the Politburo session called immediately after Chernenko's death, Romanov reportedly tried a stop- Gorbachev maneuver, nominating Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin for General Secretary. By some accounts, however, KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov hinted that his agency had compiled dossiers on corruption in the Moscow party apparatus that could be highly embarrassing to Grishin. (Chebrikov was then a candidate member of the Politburo; he has since moved up to full membership...