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                ~t, lhe~lfebart-' pointed out that Sverdlovsk is a city
                s't e first i e closed to Americans. They said the
                asUco-m Me d ... on reports in ]United States, has 'no firsthand. clini
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                pies ji oscow. 13 in Bildzeitung of Hamburg. It said
                I. V that more than 1,000 people bad died
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                rw! said 'N6 Wi&fice-wa~ --being dis- after an explosion spewed deadly bac
                tt~sed 'with - the goviets in Geneva, teria into the air. The West, German
                where d -` - c6fif6'encc on' the 5- newspaper said that another incident
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           year-61d ' f banning biological also occurred in 1979 near Novosi
           warfareake-nts is under way. birsk.
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