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WORLD, Page 40World NotesSOVIET UNIONA Little Too True?
The sensational account from the usually staid Soviet news
agency TASS last week read like a Western tabloid: six men had
miraculously been found alive in Armenia, 35 long days after an
earthquake hit the Soviet republic and killed at least 25,000
people.
Aikaz Akopyan, 50, said he and five other men had survived in
a small basement by eating pickles and canned goods. Akopyan's tale
sparked a full-scale media blitz, and he was featured in news
reports worldwide. But the daily Izvestia sensed a hoax and found
holes in Akopyan's account; none of the other five "survivors," for
example, could be found. At week's end TASS confessed it was unable
"to confirm with full certainty the authenticity of the story."