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Pollution killing forest

NZPA-Reuter Moscow Heavy industrial pollution is killing off thousands of acres of forest around the Soviet Union car-making town of Togliatti, the Communist Party daily, “Pravda” has said in a rare report on the environment. It said a “bitter smoke” hung permanently over the hills and woodlands around

the industrial centre on the Volga River and suggested ecological damage would soon create a wasteland there. “Pravda” made clear its report was part of a new approach in response to a demand from President Andropov last month that industries pay more attention to pollution control.

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Press, 10 January 1984, Page 16

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Pollution killing forest Press, 10 January 1984, Page 16

Pollution killing forest Press, 10 January 1984, Page 16