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riddle of
"red mercury."
The searches of reporters
in
France
have been more productive.
Paul
Januchev-
ski
(obviously,
the former Pavel
Yanushev-
skiy)
,
a native of the Soviet Union,
a
chemist by trade,
and director of the
"Cofrachimie"
company,
located
in
a Paris
suburb,
asserts that
he
is the French
rep-
resentative of two Ukrainian centers where
"red mercury"
is produced.
According to
him,
this
is
an
"extremely strategic
sub-
stance,
98 percent of which
is used for
military purposes."
It acts
as
a catalyst
in
a nuclear reaction,
and can also be used
for military purposes,
including missile
guidance systems.
Paul
Januchevski
is of-
fering clients
a kilogram of
"red mercury"
for half
a million dollars.
"Red mercury"
does not exist.
It
is
only
a hoax,
guesses the Director of the
National
Defense Resources Council
in Wash-
ington,
Thomas Cochrain.
Its purpose
is to
sound out the nuclear market,
find neces-
sary substances
and preparations,
and
is
a
cover for various operations.
Every time
the subject of "red mercury"
has come
up,
a
deal
has been concluded to purchase and
sell
uranium or heavy water
in
Italy,
Swit-
zerland,
Germany,
Norway,
and other coun-
tries.
(SNAP 921020)
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Author:
Alekseyeva,
E.
(Krasnodar)
Title:
PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION IN KRASNO-
DAR KRAY BLAMED FOR HEALTH CRISIS
Primary Source:
Meditsinskaya gazeta,
Au-
gust
7,
1992,
No.
(5287),
p.
11,
cols.
1-3
Extract:
The pesticide Chernobyl
-- that's
what scientists call
Kuban
among them-
selves.
The chemical
burden per hectare of
arable land
in Krasnodar Kray averages five
times higher than values for Russia
as
a
whole.
As
a result,
the kray exceeds Rus-
sian statistics for oncological
diseases.
The question of preserving the gene pool
is
acute.
Scientists claim that
in
10 or
years there will
no longer be
a concept of
a
'healthy child'
or
'healthy person'
here,
and the native population
is degenerating.
Doctors have begun to address the problem
with the most vulnerable point,
the mother-
fetus-child system.
By dint of enormous
efforts,
a Kray Clinical
Scientific Metho-
dological Mother and Child Center has been
established
in Krasnodar.
Kuban
has
long been considered
a gra-
nary and health resort for all
Russia.
Meanwhile,
in private documents
and at con-
ferences
and symposia on environmental
pro-
tection
it has
long been placed
in
a zone
of ecological
disaster,
and scientists call
Krasnodar Kray the
'pesticide Chernobyl.'
In view of the toxic and marked cumu-
lative effect of pesticides using Spear-
man's
rank correlation,
researchers have
established that the correlation coeffi-
cient between hemorrhage and the
level
of
pesticide burden
is 0.5,
between anemia and
the pesticide burden 0.8,
and between ges-
toses
and the burden 0.9.
All
this
indi-
cates
a definite relationship between the
level
of pesticide burden and gynecological
morbidity.
"In the past ten years,
over 15,000
children under the age of one have died
in
Krasnodar Kray,"
explains Docent
L.
Niku-
lin,
deputy director of the Pediatrics Cen-
ter.
"The city of Krasnodar accounts for a
fifth of them.
But the worst thing
is that
at
least
70 percent of the children could
have been saved.
What are the reasons for
this
low work efficiency?
There's the pov-
erty of our health care,
there are physi-
cian errors,
and there are artificially
broken ties between practical
health care
and researchers.
The Mother and Child Cen-
ter
is
a real
step to combine the forces of
researchers and practitioners
in solving
the kray's biggest problem.
It will
devel-
op and
introduce new diagnostic,
therapeu-
tic,
and rehabilitation technologies.
And
this
is quite realistic."
A program of ecological
protection of
pregnant women and children under the age
of one has been developed
in the kray.
Its
essence
lies
in preserving the gene pool
from ecological
debauchery,
or at
least
protecting the children.
Workers here pro-
pose to create
an industry of ecologically
clean nutrition for children,
with
rigid
control
of product quality,
and to furnish
it to pregnant women and children under the
age of one.
Such
a program must be adopted
at the governmental
level;
all
proposals
are supported by doctors
in the ecological
disaster areas.
Otherwise,
well,
the doc-
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ftors have their impartial
prognosis.
And
to avoid accusing them of prejudice,
we'll
cite some figures.
The natural
population growth
rate
in
1990 was 0.1 per thousand.
In
1991,
it was
off the bottom of the scale.
It was found
that
instead of a natural
growth
rate,
there was
a natural
loss of -0.12.
This
is
one of the lowest growth
figures for
all
of
Russia.
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Title:
NUCLEAR AND PUBLIC HEALTH SITUATION
OF CHELYABINSK-65
Primary Source:
Meditsinskaya gazeta,
Au-
gust
7,
1992,
No.
(5287),
p.
15,
col.
Extract:
For forty years,
plutonium for
nuclear weapons
has been produced
[in Chel-
yabinsk-26]
in the South Urals.
Three nu-
clear disasters have turned this site
into
an ecological
disaster area,
one of the
most radioactively contaminated places
on
Earth.
In the
"Hi roshima-Nagasaki -Cherno-
byl" world classification of nuclear dis-
asters,
this area has been fodder for jour-
nalists and
'greens.'
The radiation back-
ground within the city
limits does not ex-
ceed the norm.
Nevertheless,
if
it
is com-
pared to other closed cities with similar
plants,
the overall morbidity
is fifty per-
cent higher,
with oncological
diseases
150
percent higher,
diabetes mellitus
100 per-
cent higher,
and congenital
anomalies
en-
countered 80 percent more often.
The past
leaves
its mark.
The village of Muslyukovo
is
still
one of the region's sore points.
At the river,
a dosimeter reads 823 micro-
roentgens per hour,
about 40 times higher
than the norm.
According to
all
current
radiation safety regulations,
the people
should have been
immediately evacuated.
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Author:
Leskov,
Sergey
Title:
ACCELERATOR COMPLEX
I_N PROTVINO
LANGUISHES UNDER INADEQUATE FUNDING
Primary Source:
Izvestiya,
August
11,
1992,
No.
181
(23755),
p.
2,
cols.
3-7
Extract:
In the city of Protvino,
a new
accelerator and storage complex
(UNK)
is
under construction.
Its technological
fea-
tures permit unique experiments that are
impossible
in principle on any other
in-
stallation
in the world.
According to
plans,
the Protvino UNK should become oper-
ational
in
1993.
But
in
1992,
financing
was cut back to one-fourth of the previous
year's
level.
Work at the site has nearly
stopped.
And
it's even more vexing since
the tunnel
is practically complete — 22
kilometers have been dug,
and only finish-
ing
and surface work remain.
If the pres-
ent
level
of financing
is continues,
esti-
mates
are that the facility
is not
likely
to be completed this century.
Nineteen Russian academicians have
sent
a letter on the accelerator's fate to
the Russian government.
A group of Nobel
laureates and
leaders of the European Cen-
ter for Nuclear Research
(CERN)
tried to
draw the attention of the country's
leaders
to UNK's
importance.
In March,
a hitherto
unprecedented high commission came to Prot-
vino:
Nechayev,
Shorin,
Mikhaylov,
Salty-
kov.
And they also delivered
an opinion
on
UNK's
importance.
But
as before,
no re-
sult,
no concrete financing can
be won.
Observing our budgetary impoverish-
ment,
Western researchers
are trying to
somehow save the project,
which
is
impor-
tant for
all
the world's
science.
A group
of American specialists headed by world-
renowned Professor
P.
Schlein
[?]
recently
came to Protvino.
He made
a paradoxical
suggestion:
modify the UNK project to give
it the parameters of
a supercollider.
The
project could be completed by
1997,
and
would take $400 million,
mostly from the
Americans.
The idea
is very enticing.
But
it's best to be realistic:
all
Professor
Schlein's prestige probably won't be enough
to convince the U.S.
government to abandon
a series of national
projects to transfer
funds to Protvino.
Funds
are being allocated to support
science
in the country,
and they're not
small.
But they are being distributed by
the principle of putative fairness:
so
as
not to offend anyone.
But world experience
tells
us
it would be worthwhile to set pri-
orities.
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all
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agree that not finding the funds for
a
unique proton accelerator
is tantamount to
abandoning space flight or halting cancer
research.
Meanwhile,
rich
industrialists
from Taiwan are coming to Protv i no on Au-
gust
12 to found
a joint venture with our
tunnel ers.
While we
look for funding,
the
workers are already being forced against
their wills to convert to filling foreign
orders.
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Author:
Manucharova,
Yevgeniya
Title:
MACHINE FOR BIOFIELD TREATMENT OF
MEDICAL DISORDERS INVENTED
Primary Source:
Tzvestiya, August
11,
1992,
No.
181
(23755),
p.
2,
cols.
3-7
Extract:
We have received
a TASS report
that
at
a certain Moscow research
institute
(until
recently strictly secret)
has
in-
vented
a "super machine equal
in effective-
ness to
a thousand faith healers."
It
treats headaches,
and even diseases that
were considered difficult or impossible to
treat
until
now,
such
as epilepsy.
The effect
is based on replacing the
body's
information field:
positive infor-
mation storage devices transfer
it to the
person,
changing his emotions,
behavior,
and character for the better.
Timid and
shy people can become self-assured,
and
those inclined to depression receive tough-
ness.
The Ostankino evening channel
showed
part of the machine and
its
antenna,
as
well
as
a woman whose headache passed
as
soon
as the machine was turned on.
The re-
search
institute that developed the super
healer prefers to retain
its secrecy for
now.
Even
so,
we will
hope that the de-
signers give us
a more detailed report on
their new medical
experiment.
Behind the development of the appa-
ratus
is
long work by many scientists
in
the most varied fields.
It's nothing new
for physicists,
psychologists,
chemists,
physiologists,
and sociologists to study
the environment's effect on man.
This has
been especially important for people forced
to work
in extreme,
stressful
conditions.
And such professions are
legion:
polar ex-
plorers,
test pilots,
cosmonauts,
mountain
climbers,
geologists
(especially those who
prospect for magnetic ores).
Scientists
had to understand just what
is
harmful
in
the hostile outdoor environment.
They mea-
sured the body's reactions to various types
of waves
(acoustic,
light,
thermal),
simu-
lated them
in
laboratories,
and created new
ones:
those that neutralize the environ-
ment's perniciousness.
Physicists and physiologists
also per-
formed measurements of biological
currents
while hypnotherapists and faith healers
were at work.
For example,
Dzhuna
[Davi-
tashvili]
applies her healing hands
in mas-
sage,
and the instruments record her bio-
currents,
the change
in their state and the
condition of the patient,
and
so on.
The
measurements made
it possible to reproduce
the currents.
And
(what's
important!)
to
amplify them.
In principle,
the machine can surpass
Dzhuna
in some ways
(precisely recorded
ones),
and can reproduce some of her ac-
tions.
But when they tell
of the possibil-
ities of duplicating her effects,
physiolo-
gists express doubt that the mechanism will
surpass the living person,
especially since
the body
is not fully understood.
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