MAN-MADE, NATURAL DISASTERS LOOM ON KAMCHATKA The Columbian | March 24, 1999| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

ALAN QUARTLY, Associated Press
The Columbian
03-24-1999
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia - The threat of disaster has been a constant companion for this Far Eastern port on the Bering Sea. Two spectacularly beautiful, but active, volcanoes loom overhead; earthquake-prone faults run below.
But the cataclysm unfolding on the Kamchatka Peninsula is something altogether different: economic calamity.
The subsidized economy of the Soviet era is evaporating. Food and power are short. Health care is minimal.
"There's a slow, silent disaster going on," said Joe Lowry, a spokesman for the ...

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