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Viktor Kozlov. Igor Larionov. Vlastimil Kroupa. Sandis Ozolinsh. The list reads longer then War and Peace...
...grim image ought not to fade. As he arrived in Norway, luger Igor Boras confronted video of the assault on a marketplace in his hometown: 69 people died and more than 200 were injured in that worst attack yet on civilians in Sarajevo. A decade ago in that beautiful pastel city, everyone in the world was young and strong and fearless, sporting and peaceful and clean. Back then, so long ago, the harshest stories being told were of how much one had to pay for a beer...
...city of Kaluga, residents also felt that on balance Yeltsin was better than parliament, but he has another opponent: apathy. "We're talking about the provinces here," said Igor Babichev, editor of a business weekly. "If the weather is good on election day, people will be out in the countryside collecting potatoes." And quite a few Russians probably agreed with 21-year-old Natasha Leshiner, a sales assistant, who believed, "We should do away with the whole government. We have the same bureaucrats we had in the past...
...volcanologist from Arizona State University, led a team of nine other scientists to the 13,680- ft. summit. Williams stayed on the rim and watched as two colleagues clambered down ropes toward the volcano's inner cone -- Nestor Garcia, a Colombian, to set up a temperature probe; Igor Menyailov, a Russian, to sample gases coming out of vents. Williams and Menyailov, who had taught himself English by listening to Elvis Presley records, had been friends since they first met in 1982 on a volcano watch in Nicaragua. "Igor was excited because he was using a new device," Williams recalled last...
...included food supplies that could last up to 30 years. Quarters for top leaders were comfortably appointed, and movie theaters were built for entertainment. Some 30 miles outside Moscow in Sofrino, an underground broadcast-communications installation built during Nikita Khrushchev's tenure is now outdated and inoperative, according to Igor Malashenko, deputy director of state television and radio. "Because we don't need it anymore, it's been slowly stripped of spare parts," he says. A similar fate befell many of the tens of thousands of civilian bomb shelters built as part of the massive Soviet civil defense program...