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063 {2927}                                          April 26, 1996

General Conference '96

General Conference remembers
10 year anniversary of Chernobyl

     DENVER (UMNS) -- The 10th anniversary of the tragic nuclear
power accident in the Ukraine was remembered by delegates
attending the 1996 General Conference, here, April 26.

     On April 26, 1986, a nuclear reactor exploded at the
Chernobyl power station, killing many people and crippling "others
in body and spirit," said Anton Zakharchenko, one of two observers
from Russia attending the legislative meeting.

     Zakharchenko, along with Bishop Ruediger R. Minor, Eurasia
Area, led the 998 General Conference delegates in a service of
remembrance.

     Zakharchenko said even though 10 years have passed since
Chernobyl, "people are dying from the results of radiation,"
especially in the countries of the Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

     He asked the General Conference to remember those who died in
the "catastrophe," because "the majority of the population in
these countries have already forgotten this tragedy."

     According to Minor, the Chernobyl incident is a warning "that
we may produce our own apocalypses now." Referring to the
terminology of the "wormwood," described in the Bible as a cause
of bitter water in Revelation 8:10-11, Minor said in the Ukrainian
language, "wormwood is chernobyl."

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                                                    -- Linda Green
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