Soviet accounts said the plant's process involved beryllium, a heavy metal that is an element used in fuel for nuclear power reactors.

But in Soviet accounts of the United States, the mainstream is consistently ignored.

According to Soviet official accounts, 22 people were killed and 87 wounded.

Another pilot tried to fly but was overcome by the effects of the cake, the Soviet accounts say.

According to the Soviet account, Hungarians never wanted a revolution at all.

Soviet accounts of what happened were ambiguous, Mr. Oberg said.

I think our handling of the Soviet account is pretty good.

A further 50,000 were dead: Soviet accounts speak of the area being carpeted with bodies and littered with abandoned materiel.

The program, filled with calls for brotherhood, was a marked departure from earlier Soviet accounts of the unrest.

We know this from Soviet accounts, but there is little reason to doubt them.