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...search for people who might be trapped. But Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, in charge of the rescue effort, admitted, "There is a shortage of equipment." The need was critical. "Every hour of delay means another 20 dead out of every thousand buried," said Soviet Health Minister Yevgeni Chazov. Doctors from several sister republics were rushed into the region to minister to 19,000 injured people, nearly a third of them crowding hospitals in Yerevan and neighboring towns. Their efforts were hindered by a desperate lack of antibiotics, disposable syringes and blood supplies. About 6,500 Soviet soldiers were dispatched...
...large, delegates refrained from discussing Soviet foreign policy. The exception was the eight-year war in Afghanistan, which was criticized as a misguided Brezhnev-era adventure by two speakers, Editor Grigori Baklanov and Economist Yevgeni Primakov. But Gorbachev was applauded when he defended the performance of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The commander of the Soviet forces there, Lieut. General Boris Gromov, told the conference that "we have performed our duty with honor...
Pravda's vitriol was aimed at Kombinat, the organization that oversees cleanup and safety maintenance at Chernobyl. Workers were scolded for drunkenness, thievery and inadequate discipline, while Kombinat officials were criticized for nepotism and negligence. The newspaper said that Kombinat Director Yevgeni Ignatenko had been reprimanded and had left his post...
...been eagerly anticipated by Soviet intellectuals for more than a year, and many are hailing it as the literary event of their generation. People who have already read the novel are heaping praise on it. "This is a great book, a great moment in our literature," declared Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. "Rybakov was the man to do this. He is old enough to be a witness to that time. Mother History chose him. After this, it will be impossible to have the same history books in our libraries and schools...
...ideas I expressed differ in many respects from the official Soviet position, but in many other respects they coincide with it. In any event these are my thoughts, my convictions. At the forum, two Soviet participants, Academician Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and Andrei Kokoshin, the deputy director of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, argued at length against some of my ideas. I take that as an indication of the importance and relevance of my words...