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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday May 24,1986 worker s body to be entombed at chernobyl Moscow a the body of one of the two workers killed during the Accident at the chernobyl nuclear Plant will been bombed in the Concrete coffin being built around the stricken reactor the communist party newspaper pravda said Friday. A party official meanwhile was quoted As confirming thai Many of the 92,000 peo ple evacuated from around the ukrainian Power station will not return Home As soon As we had wanted and will be resettled. Ivan ply Shch. A senior communist party official in the Kiev Region told a cd Lya a weekly supplement to the government newspaper Izvestia evidently we will gradually be settling them in other  la probably be building additional Homes using houses that become  soviet Media reported earlier that 10,000 Winter Homes and barns Are already under construction for people evacuated from around the Power Plant 80 Miles North of Kiev. On thursday a. Kokh Linkov an officer of the ukrainian Branch of Komsomol the communist party youth league told the Moscow newspaper Moskovsky Komsomol lets that the situation near the Plant was becoming Normal. The fact that Many chernobyl residents Are already going to their apartments serves As proof of that he said. But it was not Clear from Kokh Linkov s comments How Many people had come backhand whether they had returned for Good or merely to seek belongings. A soviet representative to the Vienna Austria based International atomic Energy Agency Boris Semyonova reported thurs Day that the death toll in the disaster stood at 15, including 13 people who have died in hospitals since the april 26 Accident. Pravda Friday reported that the body of Valery Kho Demchuk an operator at Cher Nobyl was never recovered after an explosion ripped through the no. 4 reactor build ing igniting a fire that engulfed the world today Egypt May reconsider plans to build 8 nuke Power stations Cairo Egypt up Egypt said thursday it might reconsider plans to build eight nuclear Power stations by the year 2000 in Light of the disaster at the chernobyl reactor in the soviet  minister All Lutfi said Egypt was awaiting a report by the International atomic Energy Agency on the soviet disaster before making a final decision on the future of its nuclear Power program. Lutfi speaking to reporters after a meeting with Power minister Maher Abaza said Egypt will devote special attention to utilizing other sources of Energy such As Coal and solar Energy austrian Bishops expect visit from Pope in september 1988 Salzburg Austria a Pope John Paul ii is to come to Austria for a second visit in the fall of 1988,according to a plan published thursday by the austrian Bishops conference. The pontiff was in Austria for the first time in 1983. During the four Day visit the Pope is to stay in Salzburg and visit the provinces of upper Austria lower Austria Burgenland Carinthia Tyrol and possibly the Western most province of Vor Arlberg archbishop Karl Berg and Bishop Johann Wager of Graz told reporters. At least 100 die 9,000 injured in violent hailstorm in China peking up a violent hailstorm killed More than 100 people and injured at least 9,000 in Central Sichuan province this week in the worst tempest in 100 years officials said thursday huge hailstones began pelting Southeastern Sichuan near the world War 11 capital of Chongqing at 1 . Tuesday striking 13 districts and counties in the province the official China Central television reported. More thai 100 people were killed and at least 9,000 injured by the Shower of ice which pounded the cities of Yingchuan ton Chang and Daze officials in Chongqing told United press International. Soviet agriculture Dairy farming e3 livestock Grain Grain fruit vineyards Cotton soviet production in percent of total byelorussian Ukraine millions site of nuclear Accident Chicago Tribune graphic sources Cia Chicago Tribune news Structure. Vladimir shas Honok the other Man killed immediately in the Accident was brought out of the Blaze and was Able to mutter Only there Valery before he lost consciousness and died pravda said. Workers Are now toiling to encase the reactor in Concrete where it will remain for centuries to prevent any radiation  suggested the casing should Bear an inscription to Kho Demchuk. Although Kho Demchuk s Mother has been told her son is dead she is still waiting for him to visit her pravda s correspondent wrote after meeting her As a villager the newspaper said she could not believe Herson was dead unless he was buried by All the villagers. The fourth reactor Block will also be come his coffin pravda said. And per haps someone will write on those Concrete Walls that it is not the reactor which is buried Here but Valery Kho Demchuk. Butwill that Calm his Mother Down pravda Friday also disclosed the first re ported instance of resident in nearby Vil Lages refusing to take in evacuees from the 18-mile zone that was cleared around the chernobyl Plant. Most soviet accounts have emphasized the communal spirit of evacuees and their hosts but pravda said a Man in the Village of Blid Zha Pyotr Artemenko had refuse to take evacuees into his Large House be cause he feared they would  the newly polished floors. Pravda also lauded heroes among the tens of thousands of residents of in Pat the settlement adjoining the Plant. Valery Blok in a doctor and Anatoly Gusarov a Driver pulled several people from the Lames on the night of the Acci Dent although they understood what had happened and How they were endangering their own lives pravda said. There has been no official word to Date on soviet crop losses resulting from the chernobyl disaster which occurred in an agricultural area of the Northern Ukraine. Jan Vanous a  expert on the soviet Economy estimated in a May 16 report for plan econ inc., a group of eco nomic analysts in Washington that agricultural losses from the disaster will reach the equivalent of $970 million to s 1.94 billion. Vanous has estimated the total Cost of the disaster including the loss of the re actor and the costs of health care and evacuation As equivalent to s2.7 billion to $4.3 billion. This estimate does not take into account the potential loss of hard currency Export earnings and the possible drop in Industrial output due to any eventual Energy Short Ages. Ned Lya interviewed an agricultural expert who indicated that Farmers will be urged to Harvest their crops but that All crops will be carefully checked for radioactivity. The expert. Identified Only As . Kor Negev a member of the National agricultural Academy said he had heard that Agri cultural produce in the Netherlands was being destroyed and milk poured Down sew ers. He insisted this was unnecessary but recommended that Green vegetables should be washed As Many As three times if there were fears that they had come from a zone affected by radiation from the chernobyl Accident. 4 hostages held in Lebanon Send photos letters to Paris Paris a four members of a French television Crew who have been held hostage in Lebanon since March have sent photographs and letters saying they Are in Good health an official of the to station said Friday. Paul Nahon Deputy director of Antenne 2 s editorial department said the prime minister s office turned the letters and photos Over to the station. The color photos show the four men unshaven Reading a May 14 edition of the lebanese newspaper l Orient be Jour. The station refused to divulge the contents of the letters which Are being turned Over to family members. The prime minister s office said the letters and photos were turned Over to Antenne 2 thursday night but he refused All comment on How it obtained them. Sources said the letters were Short notes assuring that the four were in Good health. Only one of the letters car ried a Date. May 14. It s Good news for the station said Nahon. It s a Good sign. We feel Good said editor in chief Pierre Henri Arnstam. The four were kidnapped March 8 in West Beirut As they returned from covering a meeting of the pro iranian Hezbollah party of god. The team went to Lebanon following the March 5 announcement that French researcher Michel Seurat had been killed by his captors. Seurat s death never has Bee confirmed. The first anniversary of his kidnapping was thursday. The four Man Crew consists of Philippe Rochet Georges Hansen Aurel Cornea and Jean Louis Normandin. Wierzynski named new director of radio free Europe radio Liberty Munich a Gregory Wierzynski a Veteran International journalist has been named the new director of radio free Europe and radio Liberty in Munich a spokesman for the stations said Friday. Gene Pell the president of the stations announced the decision and introduced or. Wierzynski to the staff on May 21. The appointment becomes effective july 1,"spokesman Cedric tale said. Wierzynski 47, had a Long career with time Magazine As a journalist and a manager. He beaded the Magazine bureaus in Chicago and pans tale said. The spokesman said Wierzynski was also time s . State department correspondent and reported on National and International events throughout the United states Eastern and Western Europe the Middle East and Alia. Wierzynski a graduate of Brown University in provi Dence r.i., took a 15-month leave of absence from journalism in 1983 to serve As an adviser to assistant Secre tary of defense Richard Perle on East european Security issues. Tale said. Tate said Wierzynski his wife Barbara and 5-year old son Casimir will take up residence in Munich some time in july. Wierzynski replaces Veteran journalist and author George Urban who u returning to England to pursue his career. Urban remains connected to the stations in a consultant capacity Tate said. Radio free Europe makes regular news broadcasts in native languages to Eastern Europe while radio Liberty broadcasts in 13 languages to the soviet Union. The two stations Are funded by the u5. Government  
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