15 November 1997span> “THEY HAVE HIGH LEVELS of radiation and will now have to be treated for many years,” said Sergei Filin, a Russian doctor treating ten Georgian border guards for radiation sickness. The guards were contaminated in early October after exposure to radioactive containers that were buried too shallow at a training center outside Tbilisi. A Georgian official said […]

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