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...Yuri Kapralov, consul for the Soviet Embassy in Washington, said that "there is no system of weapons that we are not prepared to eliminate, provided it is done on the basis of equity and equal security...
...plight of Jews in the Soviet Union has degenerated into a "catastrophical situation" in recent years, Yuri Stern, a Soviet dissident who recently emigrated to Israel, said yesterday...
...generate 5.6% of the country's electricity. By 1990 the Soviets hope to meet a full one-third of energy needs in the country's European region through nuclear power. Yet an occasional dissenting voice can be heard. In October 1979, Atomic Engineer Nikolai Dollezhal and Economist Yuri Koryakin published an article in the theoretical journal Kommunist that warned against building more reactors in the heavily populated European region. The article's obvious warning about the safety of Soviet atomic-power plants did not please the Kremlin. A group of top-level Soviet scientists was assembled...
...physicists are Yuri F. Orlov, arrested in 1978, and Andrei D. Sakharov, banished to internal exile in January 1980. Shortly after Sakharov was exiled, the Physics Department invited the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and human rights activist, who is known as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, to spend a semester here as a Loeb lecturer...
Living aboard Salyut brought other hazards. In 1977, when Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko took a "space walk" outside the ship to look for some suspected damage, he suddenly saw his companion, Yuri Romanenko, drifting by. Romanenko, untethered to the spacecraft, had accidentally floated out of the cabin. Grechko caught Romanenko just as he was about to spin off into the void. On another flight, cosmonauts complained of repeated headaches. It turned out carbon dioxide was building up to dangerous levels in the cabin. The problem was solved by changing the air purifiers more often...