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...regularly of their whereabouts. Included among them are Alexander Kovalenko, 45, who supervised the No. 4 reactor, and Boris Rogozhkin, 52, the boss of the midnight-to-8 a.m. shift (the fatal explosions occurred at 1:25 a.m.). Both could receive ten- year sentences. The sixth defendant, Government Inspector Yuri Laushkin, 50, faces up to two years in prison for failing to carry out his responsibilities...
Nevertheless, Helms knew Moscow. "I studied the pictures and the reports that came across my desk," he said. He memorized the sad face of his principal adversary, longtime KGB Chief Yuri Andropov, who went on to run the Soviet Union before he died. Helms fought Andropov in the back alleys of the world with his agents, in the heavens with his U-2s and satellites. He won plenty, lost a few -- stories that will never be told. "The man who kept the secrets," Author Thomas Powers called Helms. He still keeps them...
...Pino shot down two U.S. B-26 bombers. The exploit, recounted in his 1969 book Dawn at the Bay of Pigs, made him a legend. He rose rapidly through the ranks and, in 1975, became a first commander. He was trained in the Soviet Union at the Yuri Gagarin Aviation College. As of last week, however, Del Pino was anything but admired by Cuba's Communist rulers. Characterizing his defection as "strange and treacherous conduct," the Armed Forces Ministry said it has "irreparably stained his life, his history and his honor...
...latest Soviet attack on Star Wars, a speech delivered yesterday by the chief Soviet delegate to the 40-nation Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Yuri Nazarkin said: "whatever its 'defensive' labels, [it] is designed to alter the balance of forces to the advantage of the United States...
...that they knew of 43 political prisoners who had suddenly been freed, in what Bonner called a "wonderful turnaround" in Kremlin policy. Soon old friends and even distant acquaintances, some newly arrived at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station in camp clothes and close-cropped prison haircuts, came to call. When Yuri Shikhanovich arrived, Bonner sent him off with money to buy wine and vodka for a celebration...